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Issue: Vol. 4442 No. 1: 29 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.1.13
Page range: 194–200
Abstract views: 119
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Description of the egg of Hulecoeteomyia koreica (Edwards) (Diptera: Culicidae) using scanning electron microscopy

Department of Microbiology Immunology and Parasitology, Center of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Diptera Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz), Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Diptera Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz), Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Viale dell’Università, 10, 35020 Legnaro, Italy.
Diptera Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz), Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Interdisciplinary Entomological Surveillance Laboratory of Diptera and Hemiptera, Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz), Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Diptera Aedes koreicus egg morphology Hulecoeteomyia koreica

Abstract

The egg of Hulecoeteomyia koreica (Edwards) [=Aedes koreicus (Edwards)], an invasive mosquito in Europe, is described from material obtained in Italy. Eggs are cigar-shaped and tapered posteriorly. They are 667.5 ±47.27 µm in length, and the width posteriorly, in the middle and near the micropyle is, respectively, 113.18 ±10.07, 182.5 ±26.92 and 142.25 ±13.85µm. The outer chorion has groups of tubercles, 3 or 4 in an irregular row in the anterior region and 4–6 irregularly dispersed in cavities surrounded by a covering similar to a membrane. The micropyle is surrounded by an irregular collar, and groups of tubercles are less defined in this region. This pattern is different from the egg described for any other mosquito species.

 

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