CULICIDAE

Papp, L., Merz, B. & Földvári, M., 2006, DIPTERA OF THAILAND A summary of the families and genera with references to the species representations, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 52 (2), No. 2, pp. 97-269 : 110-114

CULICIDAE

The true mosquitoes are the best known dipterous family in the fauna of Thailand. In the CDO (STONE & DELFINADO 1973) 243 species of 17 genera are listed. Of them, 59 are described from Thailand (incl. two specific names, which proved later to be junior synonyms), as follows:

Anopheles (A.) bulkleyi CAUSEY, 1937 (p. 543), A. (A.) interruptus PURI, 1929 (p. 387), A. (A.) pursati LAVERAN, 1902 (p. 907), A. (A.) tigertti SCANLON & PEYTON, 1967 (p. 19),

Toxorhynchites (T.) bickleyi THURMAN, 1959 (p. 14), T. (T.) manopi THURMAN, 1959 (p. 16), T. (T.) sunthorni THURMAN, 1959 (p. 19),

Topomyia (Suaymyia) cristata THURMAN, 1959 (p. 46), T. (S.) leucotarsis THURMAN, 1959 (p. 47), T. (S.) pseudoleucotarsis THURMAN, 1959 (p. 48) – T. (Topomyia) aenea THURMAN, 1959 (p. 39), T. (T.) inclinata THURMAN, 1959 (p.

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Aedes (Diceromyia) scanloni REINERT, 1970 (p. 17) – Aedes (Finlaya) hegneri CAUSEY, 1937 (p. 543) – Aedes (Neomacleaya) cretatus DELFINADO, 1967 (p. 14), Ae. (N.) gibbosus DELFINADO, 1967 (p. 20), Ae. (N.) hispidus DELFINADO, 1967 (p. 21), Ae. (N.) latipennis DELFINADO, 1967 (p. 26), Ae. (N.) notabilis DELFINADO, 1967 (p. 28), Ae. (N.) protuberans DELFINADO, 1967 (p. 29), Ae. (N.) siamensis DELFINADO, 1968 (p. 36), Ae. (N.) torosus DELFINADO, 1967 (p. 30) – Aedes (Stegomyia) seato HUANG, 1969 (p. 234),

Armigeres (A.) bhayungi THURMAN & THURMAN, 1958 (p. 186) – A. (Leicesteria) vimoli THURMAN & THURMAN, 1958 (p. 187),

Ayurakitia griffithi THURMAN, 1954 (p. 198),

Culex (Culex) neolitoralis BRAM, 1967 (p. 236), C. (C.) siamensis BARRAUD & CHRISTOPHERS, 1931 (p. 283, junior syn. of C. tritaeniorhynchus GILES, 1901 ) – Culex (Culiciomyia) barrinus BRAM, 1967 (p. 125), C. (C.) scanloni BRAM, 1967 (p. 147), C. (C.) spiculothorax BRAM, 1967 (p. 155), C. (C.) termi THURMAN, 1955 (p. 18), C. (C.) thurmanorum BRAM, 1967 (p. 159) – Culex (Lophoceraomyia) aculeatus COLLESS, 1965 (p. 286), C. (L.) eukrines BRAM & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1967 (p. 11), C. (L.) fuscosiphonis BRAM & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1967 (p. 11), C. (L.) incomptus BRAM & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1967 (p. 16), C. (L.) peytoni BRAM & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1967 (p. 7), C. (L.) pholeter BRAM & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1967 (p. 13), C. (L.) spiculosus BRAM & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1967 (p. 3) – Culex (Thaiomyia) dispectus BRAM, 1966 (p. 75),

Ficalbia (Mimomyia) aurea ( LEICESTER, 1908) (p. 116),

Heizmannia (H.) mattinglyi THURMAN, 1959 (p. 70), H. (Mattinglyia) thelmae MATTINGLY, 1970 (p. 48),

Hodgesia lampangensis THURMAN, 1959 (p. 52),

Orthopodomyia lemmonae THURMAN, 1959 (p. 58, junior syn. of O. anopheloides ( GILES, 1903)) , O. siamensis ZAVORTINK, 1968 (p. 126),

Uranotaenia demeilloni PEYTON & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1970 (p. 404), U. diraphati PEYTON & KLEIN, 1970 (p. 245), U. gouldi PEYTON & KLEIN, 1970 (p. 248), U. koli PEYTON & KLEIN, 1970 (p. 246), U. prajimi PEYTON & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1970 (p. 406), U. pseudomaculipleura PEYTON & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1970 (p. 408), Uranotaenia sombooni PEYTON & KLEIN, 1970 (p. 249), U. spiculosa PEYTON & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1970 (p. 410), U. sumethi PEYTON & RATTANARITHIKUL, 1970 (p. 411).

An overview of the relevant literature on the Malesian Culicidae (after 1973) is involved in OOSTERBROEK’ s (1998) book. After 1973 a systematic survey and multidisciplinate research on the Thailand Culicidae was commenced. We mention below only those papers, which involve new taxa and first records of spp. for Thailand.

REINERT (1972) revised the southeast Asian spp. of Aedes (subg. Ayurakitia THURMAN ), describing Ae. (A.) peytoni (p. 7). HUANG (1973) described Aedes (Stegomyia) malikuli (p. 225, Chiang Mai, Huai Phrao) from Thailand. REINERT (1973b) described Bothaella , a new subgenus of Aedes , based on Ae. (B.) helenae (p. 9, Chiang Mai) and in the same year he ( REINERT 1973 a) described Ae. (Diceromyia) pseudonummatus (p. 29, Chiang Mai). SIRIVANAKARN (1973) described Culex (Culicomyia) lampangensis (p. 113, Ban Pha Daeng) and C. (Culex) longicornis SIRINAVAKARN, 1976 (p. 82, Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep ). REINERT (1976) described Aedes (Paraedes) thailandensis (p. 319). HUANG (1977) recorded Ae. (Stegomyia) craggi and Ae. ( Stegomyia ) w-albus for the first time from Thailand. In his revision of the Oriental Culex (Lophoceraomyia) spp. SIRIVANAKARN (1977a) described C. (L.) pairoji (p. 63) and C. (L.) hirtipalpis (p. 152); in the same year he SIRIVANAKARN (1977b) described C. (Culiciomyia) harrisoni (p. 102) from Thailand. PEYTON (1977), when revising SE Asian spp. of Uranotaenia (Pseudoficalbia) , described five new spp. from Thailand: U. abdita (p. 125), U. albipes (p. 64), U. approximata (p. 38), U. enigmatica (p. 133) and U. nocticola (p. 149). Knight (1978) described the new Aedes (Finlaya) harinasutai (p. 106) from Thailand. REINERT (1979) described Isoades, as a new subgenus of Aedes MEIGEN , and its type species, Ae. ( Isa .) cavaticus (p. 148) was from Thailand. PEYTON & HARRISON’ s (1979) Anopheles (Cellia) dirus , a new species of the leucosphyrus group, was also from Thailand.

HARRISON (1980) in his revision of the Anopheles (Cellia) “ Myzomyia series”, HII (1980) in his studies on the Anopheles balabacensis complex gave also records from Thailand. SUCHARIT et al. (1980) published identification keys for the Culex pipiens complex in Thailand, based on the male terminalia. RATTANARITHIKUL (1982) published a guide to the genera of mosquitoes of Thailand with illustrated keys, biological notes and preservation and mounting techniques. MIYAGI et al. (1986) published new distribution records of mosquitoes from Thailand, summarising results from the years of 1983–84. KNIGHT & HARRISON (1987) described another new Aedes (Finlaya), Ae. mikrokopion (p. 215) of the niveus subgroup. RATTANARITHIKUL & GREEN (1987) described Anopheles (Cellia) notanandai (p. 259) and A. (C.) sawadwongporni (p. 256) from Thailand. HARBACH et al. (1987) recorded Uranotaenia (Pseudoficalbia) hirsutifemora PE- TERS from Thailand. As for a summary of the mosquito fauna of Thailand, TSUKAMOTO et al. (1987) published a complete annotated checklist. RATTANARITHIKUL & HARRISON (1988) described Aedes (Finlaya) reinerti (p. 78) from northern Thailand. PEYTON & RAMALINGAM (1988) described Anopheles (Cellia) nemophilus, a new species of the leucosphyrus group from Peninsular Malaysia and Thailand. HARRISON et al. (1988) concluded that Anopheles barbiventris , and not A. campestris , occurs in the Chiang Mai Valley of Thailand. HARBACH & RATTANARITHIKUL (1988) described Culex (Eumelanomyia) richei and recorded it from Thailand. MIYAGI & TOMA (1989) described Topomyia (Suyamyia) sucheriti sp. n. from Thailand.

REINERT (1990) described Kenknightia , as a new subgenus of the genus Aedes MEIGEN from the Oriental region and revised relegated spp., also those occurring in Thailand. HARRISON et al. (1990) summarised taxonomic changes, revised occurrence records and published other notes on the Culicidae of Thailand and neighbouring countries. BENJAPHONG & RATTANARITHIKUL (1991) reported Zeugnomyia gracilis LEICESTER from Thailand. APIWATHNASORN et al. (1991) gave a simplified key for larval identification of Mansonia mosquitoes in Thailand. RATTANARITHIKUL & PANTHUSIRI’ s (1994) paper with illustrated keys to the medically important mosquitos of Thailand is a useful tool in the identification. SALLUM et al. (2005) recorded species of the Anopheles leucosphyrus group, also from Thailand.

Our material is insignificant (63+4 indiv. from 2004 and 2003, respectively).