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A Mosquito Survey in New Caledonia and the Belep Islands, with new Locality Records for two Species of Culex*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Marshall Laird
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The mosquito fauna of New Caledonia and the Belep Islands is discussed, together with some features of the larval morphology of Culex (Culex) pipiens fatigans Wied., C. (C.) annulirostris Skuse and C. (Neoculex) pseudomelanoconia Theo. Culex (C.) bitaeniorhynchus Giles, herein recorded from New Caledonia for the first time, is probably a post-war introduction into the Noumea area from Australia. Culex (Lophoceratomyia) fraudatrix Theo., recorded from Art Island (Belep group), has not previously been known from the New Caledonian area. From the mosquito and blood-smear survey in the Belep Islands, it is concluded that these islands, like New Caledonia, are as yet free from Anopheles and malaria.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , June 1954 , pp. 285 - 293
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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