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Issue: Vol. 2661 No. 1: 29 Oct. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2661.1.2
Page range: 33–46
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 15

Bothaella manhi, a new species of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Cuc Phuong National Park of Vietnam based on morphology and DNA sequence

Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.
Department of Cell Biology, Hanoi University of Science, 334 Nguyen Trai Road, Hanoi, Vietnam
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.
Diptera Bothaella alongi Bothaella helenae Bothaella kleini COI COII mosquito new species taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of genus Bothaella (Diptera: Culicidae) collected along with two other species of the genus during surveys for flavivirus isolations in the Cuc Phuong National Park in northern Vietnam is formally described and named as Bothaella manhi, sp. n. The adults, pupa and fourth-instar larva are characterized, the male genitalia and the two immature stages are illustrated and DNA sequence data are included for regions coding for sections of the COI and COII genes (mtDNA). The species is compared and distinguished from the other species of the genus, and sequence data are used to hypothesise its phylogenetic relationship with Bo. helenae and Bo. kleini, the other two species collected during the survey.

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