Coquillettidia is a mosquito genus erected by entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1904 based primarily on unique features of its "peculiar" male genitalia.Harrison G. Dyar. 1904. Remarks on Genitalic Genera in the Culicidae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, VII(1): 42-49; 47; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/038400-1.pdf . The genus name honors Dyar's colleague Daniel William Coquillett.

The genus comprises three subgenera, Austromansonia, Coquillettidia, and Rhynochotaenia, and 57 species,Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Coquillettidia" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.wrbu.org/generapages/coquillettidia.htm , accessed 13 Feb 2016. of which Coquillettidia perturbans is perhaps the best known.

Bionomics

Not all species have been well documented, but females of some are known to feed primarily on birds but will also bite cattle. The females bite primarily at night, and are most active during the early part of the night. They occasionally attack humans during daylight hours in shady places when their habitat is entered.

Adult females lay their eggs on the surface of water in areas of emergent vegetation to which hatchling larvae attach themselves with a modified siphon, on the roots or submerged stems, and where they remain throughout development; pupae also attach themselves the plants by means of a modified respiratory trumpet, and remain there until the adult is ready to emerge.

Species in the subgenus Coquillettidia are primarily Afrotropical, but some are found in the Asian and Australasian Regions, one occurs in North America and two occur in the Palearctic region. Austromansonia occurs only in New Zealand, while species of subgenus Rhynchotaenia are confined to the Neotropical Region.

Medical importance

Coquillettidia perturbans is considered a vector of eastern equine encephalitis; other species are secondary or suspected vectors of Brugia malayi the cause of lymphatic filariasis, and Rift Valley fever.

Coquillettidia venezuelensis transmits Oropouche virus, the cause of Oropouche fever.

Species Subgenus (Coquillettidia) Dyar, 1905

†Coquillettidia adamowiczi Szadziewski, Sontag et Szwedo, 2019

Coquillettidia annettii Coquillettidia aurata Coquillettidia aurea Coquillettidia aureosquammata Coquillettidia aurites Coquillettidia buxtoni Coquillettidia chrysosoma Coquillettidia crassipes Coquillettidia cristata Coquillettidia fijiensis Coquillettidia flavocincta Coquillettidia fraseri Coquillettidia fuscopennata Coquillettidia fuscopteron †Coquillettidia gedanica Szadziewski, Sontag et Szwedo, 2019 Coquillettidia giblini Coquillettidia grandidieri Coquillettidia hodgkini Coquillettidia iracunda

Coquillettidia karandalaensis Coquillettidia linealis Coquillettidia lutea Coquillettidia maculipennis Coquillettidia memorans Coquillettidia metallica Coquillettidia microannulata Coquillettidia nigritarsis Coquillettidia nigrithorax Coquillettidia nigrochracea Coquillettidia nigrosignata Coquillettidia novochracea Coquillettidia ochracea Coquillettidia perturbans Coquillettidia pseudoconopas Coquillettidia richiardii Coquillettidia rochei Coquillettidia samoaensis Coquillettidia saotomensis Coquillettidia schoutedeni Coquillettidia vanoyei Coquillettidia variegata Coquillettidia versicolor Coquillettidia voltaensis Coquillettidia wahlbergi Coquillettidia xanthogaster

Subgenus (Austromansonia) Belkin, 1968 Coquillettidia tenuipalpis

Subgenus (Rhynchotaenia) Brèthes, 1910 Coquillettidia albicosta Coquillettidia albifera Coquillettidia arribalzagae Coquillettidia chrysonotum

Coquillettidia fasciolata Coquillettidia hermanoi Coquillettidia juxtamansonia Coquillettidia lynchi Coquillettidia neivai Coquillettidia nigricans Coquillettidia nitens Coquillettidia shannoni

Coquillettidia venezuelensis

Uncertain

†Coquillettidia cockerelli Edwards 1923 †Coquillettidia martinii (Statz, 1944) †Coquillettidia varivestita (Statz, 1944)

See also Mosquito control

References

External links Species in subgenus Austromansonia at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Species in subgenus Coquillettidia at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Species in subgenus Rhynchotaenia at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit