Haemagogus soperi is a species of mosquito found in the coastal plain region of Ecuador.Roberto Leví-Castillo. 1955. Haemagogus soperi N. Sp. mosquito trasmisor de Fiebre Amarilla Selvática en el Ecuador (Diptera-Culicidae). Revista Ecuatoriana de Entomología y Parasitología, 2(3-4[1954-1955]): 479-484; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/077800-20.PDF. The specific epithet honors Dr. Frederick Lowe Soper. __TOC__
Bionomics
H. soperi is known from the Pacific coastal lowlands of all five provinces of Ecuador;J. Hal Arnell. 1973. Mosquito Studies (Diptera, Culicidae) XXXII. A revision of the genus Haemagogus. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 10(2): 1-174; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/MQ0316.pdf.Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson: "Haemagogus » Haemagogus » soperi Leví-Castillo" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=17375, accessed 13 Feb 2016. the type specimen was collected in Los Ríos Province, Ecuador.
Immatures develop in broken or cut bamboo internodes and have also been collected from leaf axils and bamboo stumps.
Medical importance
H. soperi is said to readily attack humans and is suspected to be involved in the yellow fever transmission cycle in the endemic regions of the western jungles of Ecuador.
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