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Issue: Vol. 4801 No. 1: 17 Jun. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4801.1.9
Page range: 171–178
Abstract views: 137
PDF downloaded: 54

Discrimination of Uranotaenia species (Diptera: Culicidae) from Madagascar based on morphology and wing morphometric traits

Unité d’Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, BP 1274 Avaradoha, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar.
Unité d’Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, BP 1274 Avaradoha, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar. Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51 rue Cognacq-Jay, 51096 Reims, France.
Unité d’Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, BP 1274 Avaradoha, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar. Unité de Recherche et d’Expertise en Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, BP 61, 98845 Nouméa Cedex, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Madagascar. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Antananarivo University, Madagascar
Ornithologie, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.
Unité d’Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, BP 1274 Avaradoha, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar. Plateforme d’Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, 5, BP 983, Blvd. Monivong, 12201 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Unité d’Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, BP 1274 Avaradoha, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar.
Diptera Culicidae Uranotaenia neireti Ur. alboabdominalis Ur. mayottensis taxonomy morphology wing morphometry Madagascar

Abstract

The genus Uranotaenia (Diptera: Culicidae) has been well documented in Madagascar where it includes 73 species, 89.4% being endemic. However, one problem is that most species are morphologically similar in the adult stage. Here, 713 Uranotaenia specimens collected in the tropical forests of Anorana and Maromizaha between 2008 and 2014 were examined. Using the dichotomous keys for the Uranotaenia fauna of Madagascar published in 2004, three species were identified: Uranotaenia neireti (220), Ur. alboabdominalis (110) and Ur. mayottensis (28). The other specimens (355) were not identifiable and were classified as Uranotaenia sp1. Using wing morphometry, the four taxa were classified into four morphogroups. Within the Uranotaenia sp1 group, specimens from the Anorana forest and those from the Maromizaha forest overlapped. This result suggests that wing morphometric traits could be a good marker to distinguish Uranotaenia species in Madagascar.

 

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