Wyeomyia serratoria Dyar & Nuñez Tovar

Stein, Marina, Alvarez, Carla N., Alonso, Ana C., Bangher, Débora N., Willener, Juana A. & Campos, Raúl E., 2018, New records of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) found in phytotelmata in Northern Argentina, Zootaxa 4399 (1), pp. 87-100 : 96

Wyeomyia serratoria Dyar & Nuñez Tovar (subgenus uncertain)

OUR SpEcImENS WERE bREd fROm laRVaE, aNd THE fEmalES THaT EmERgEd ( FIg. 5D,E ) WERE IdENTIfIEd USINg THE KEYS bY LaNE (1953) aNd DaRSIE (1985). THE SpEcIES maY bE IdENTIfIEd bY THE mIdTaRSI HaVINg WHITE ScalES ON THE apIcal Half Of TaRSOmERE II, aNd all Of TaRSOmERES III aNd IV. AbdOmINal cOlOURS SEpaRaTEd ON THE SIdES IN TRIaNgUlaR pOSTERIOR laTERal maRKINgS.

Bionomics and distribution. LaRVaE WERE cOllEcTEd fROm INTERNOdES Of a Guadua SpEcIES Of bambOO. CURRENT dISTRIbUTION IN SOUTH AmERIca: ARgENTINa, BRazIl, COlOmbIa, VENEzUEla (WalTER REEd BIOSYSTEmaTIcS UNIT, 2013). Wyeomyia serratoria WaS REcORdEd pREVIOUSlY fROm MISIONES PROVINcE. IT IS REcORdEd HERE fROm CORRIENTES PROVINcE.

Collection data. CORRIENTES PROVINcE: SaN CaYETaNO, RIacHUElO XII-2011, 2 F, LE, PE. CampOS cOll. aNd dET. SpEcImENS ILPLA. CUL 22-031 aNd -032.

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FIGURE 5. Specimens collected during the study. (A) Tx. bambusicola: female; (B) Tx. theobaldi: female; (C) Wy. codiocampa: terminal abdominal segments of the larva; (D,E) Wy. serratoria: female. S, sternum; Ta, tarsomeres; Ta-II, tarsomeres of midleg; Te, tergum; 4-X, seta 4-X (ventral brush) of abdominal segment X. Photos by Carla N. Alvarez (A‒C) and Raúl E. Campos (D and E).