Kerteszia

The subgenus Kerteszia are Neotropical anopheline mosquitoes originally described in 1905 by Frederick V. Theobald as genus Kertészia with Kertészia boliviensis as the type species.[1][2]

Kerteszia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Superfamily:
Culicoidea
Family:
Culicidae
Subfamily:
Anophelinae
Genus:
Anopheles
Subgenus:
Kerteszia

Theobald, 1905

Bionomics

Subgenus Kerteszia immatures develop primarily in the water in bromeliads, and less often in bamboo.[3] They are distributed southward from the State of Veracruz in Mexico through Central America and Atlantic South America, along the coast to Misiones Province in Argentina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and on the Pacific coast of South America to El Oro Province, Ecuador.[2] The subgenus is absent from the West Indies islands except Trinidad and from most of the Amazon basin in South America.[2]

Medical Importance

Several species of this subgenus are important primary vectors of human malarias, and other species are suspected vectors.[2]

Species

Species listed by the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit:[4]

  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) auyantepuiensis Harbach and Navarro
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) bambusicolus Komp
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) bellator Dyar and Knab (syn.: Anopheles (Kerteszia) bromelicola Dyar)
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) boliviensis (Theobald)
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii Dyar and Knab (syn.: Anopheles (Kerteszia) adolphoi Neiva, Anopheles (Kerteszia) lutzii Theobald, Anopheles (Kerteszia) montemor Correa)
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) gonzalezrinconesi Cova García, Pulido F. & Escalante de Ugueto
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) homunculus Komp (syn.: Anopheles (Kerteszia) anoplus Komp)
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) laneanus Corrêa & Cerqueira
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) lepidotus Zavortink
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) neivai Howard, Dyar and Knab (syn.: Anopheles (Kerteszia) hylephilus Dyar and Knab)
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) pholidotus Zavortink
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) rollai Cova García, Pulido F. & Escalante de Ugueto (syn.: Anopheles (Kerteszia) hilli Cova Garcia, Pulido and de Ugueto)

References
  1. Theobald, F. V. 1905. A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with descriptions of new genera and species. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, 3: 61-119; 66; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/131700-25.PDF, accessed 29 Feb 2016.
  2. Thomas J. Zavortink. 1973. Mosquito Studies (Diptera, Culicidae) XXIX. A Review of the Subgenus Kerteszia of Anopheles. Contrib. Amer. Ent. Inst., 9(3): 1-54; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/144600-7.pdf.
  3. W. H. W. Komp. 1937. The Species of the Subgenus Kerteszia of Anopheles (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, XXX: 492-529; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/071100-9.pdf, accessed 29 Feb 2016.
  4. Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Culicidae » Anophelinae » Null » Anopheles » Subgenus Kerteszia Theobald" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=132, accessed 29 Feb 2016.


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