Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions of the world. There are about 2 million species of arthropods found in the world, and more are still being discovered to this day. This makes it very complicated and difficult to summarize the exact number of species found within a certain region.
This is a list of the mosquitoes found from Sri Lanka.
Mosquito Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Mosquitoes are small midge-like insects that can be found in terrestrial ecosystems wherever water is abundant. Females of most species are ectoparasites, whose tube-like mouthparts (called a proboscis) pierce the hosts' skin to consume blood. Many species of mosquitoes are vectors of diseases, so important in medicine and other fields. Well over 3,500 species of mosquitoes were found and described, and new species are about to discover. Sri Lanka is home to 131 species of mosquitoes that included to 16 genera with 17 endemic species.
Endemic species are highlighted with letter E.
Subfamily Anophelinae Anopheles aconitus Dönitz 1902 Anopheles aitkenii James 1903 Anopheles annularis van der Wulp 1884 Anopheles barbirostris Van der Wulp 1884 Anopheles barbumbrosus Strickland & Chowdhury 1927 Anopheles culicifacies Giles, 1901 Anopheles elegans James 1903 Anopheles gigas Giles 1901 - E Anopheles insulaeflorum Swellengrebel & Swellengrebel de Graaf 1919 Anopheles interruptus Puri 1929 Anopheles jamesii Theobald 1901 Anopheles karwari James 1903 Anopheles nigerrimus Giles 1900 Anopheles pallidus Theobald 1901 Anopheles peditaeniatus Leicester 1908 Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say 1824 Anopheles reidi Harrison 1973 - E Anopheles subpictus Grassi 1899 Anopheles tessellatus Theobald Anopheles vagus Dönitz 1902 Anopheles varuna Iyengar 1924
Subfamily Culicinae Aedeomyia catasticta Knab 1909 Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) 1762 Aedes albolateralis (Theobald) 1908 Aedes albopictus (Skuse) 1894 Aedes alboscutellatus (Theobald) 1905 Aedes albotaeniatus (Leicester) 1904 Aedes annulirostris (Theobald) 1905 Aedes argenteoscutellatus Carter & Wijesundara 1948 - E Aedes butleri Theobald 1901 Aedes chrysolineatus (Theobald) 1907 Aedes greenii (Theobald) 1903 Aedes gubernatoris (Giles) 1901 Aedes harveyi (Barraud) 1923 Aedes indicus (Theobald) 1907 Aedes jamesi (Edwards) 1914 Aedes krombeini (Huang Y-M 1975) - E Aedes lankaensis Stone & Night 1958 - E Aedes lineatopennis (Ludlow) 1905 Aedes macdougalli Edwards 1922 Aedes mediopunctatus (Theobald) 1905 - E Aedes niveus (Ludlow) 1903 Aedes ostentatio (Leicester) 1908 Aedes pallidostriatus (Theobald) 1907 Aedes petroelephantus Wijesundara 1951 - E Aedes pipersalatus (Giles) 1902 Aedes pseudomediofasciatus (Theobald) 1910 Aedes pseudotaeniatus (Giles) 1901 Aedes quasiferinus Mattingly 1961 Aedes ramachandrai Reuben 1972 Aedes reginae Edwards 1922 Aedes scatophagoides (Theobald) 1901 Aedes seculatus Menon 1950 Aedes simplex (Theobald) 1903 - E Aedes srilankensis (Reinert J.F. 1977) - E Aedes stenoetrus (Theobald) 1907 Aedes taeniorhyncoides (Christophers) 1911 Aedes thomsoni (Theobald) 1905 Aedes vexans (Meigen) 1830 Aedes vittatus (Bigot) 1861 Aedes wardi Reinert, 1976 Aedes yerburyi Edwards. 1917 - E Armigeres aureolineatus (Leicester) 1908 Armigeres subalbatus (Coquillett) 1898 Armigeres magnus (Theobald) 1908 Armigeres omissus (Edwards) 1914 Coquillettidia crassipes (Van der Wulp) 1881 Culex bahri (Edwards) 1914 - E Culex bailyi Barraud 1934 Culex bicornutus (Theobald) 1910 Culex bitaeniorhynchus Giles 1901 Culex brevipalpis (Giles) 1902 Culex campilunati Carter & Wijesundara 1948 - E Culex castrensis Edwards 1922 Culex fragilis Ludlow 1903 Culex fuscanus Weidemann 1820 Culex fuscocephala Theobald 1907 Culex gelidus Theobald 1901 Culex halifaxi Theobald 1903 Culex infantulus Edwards 1922 Culex infula Theobald 1901 Culex jacksoni Edwards 1934 Culex lasiopalpis (Sirivanakarn S. 1977) - E Culex malayi (Leicester) 1908 Culex mammilifer (Leicester) 1908 Culex mimulus Edwards 1915 Culex minutissimus (Theobald) 1907 Culex nigropunctatus Edwards 1926 Culex pallidothorax Theobald 1905 Culex pluvialis Barraud 1924 Culex pseudovishnui Colless 1957 Culex quadripalpis (Edwards) 1914 Culex quinquefasciatus Say 1823 Culex rubithoracis (Leicester) 1908 Culex sinensis Theobald 1903 Culex sitiens Weidemann 1828 Culex spathifurca (Edwards) 1915 Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles 1901 Culex uniformis (Theobald) 1905 Culex vishnui Theobald 1901 Culex wardi (Sirivanakarn S. 1977) - E Culex whitmorei (Giles) 1904 Ficalbia minima (Theobald) 1901 Heizmannia greenii (Theobald) 1905 Heizmannia carteri Amerasinghe, 1993 Hodgesia bailyi Barraud 1929 Hodgesia malayi Leicester 1908 Malaya genurostris Leicester. 1908 Mansonia annulifera (Theobald) 1901 Mansonia indiana Edwards. 1930 Mansonia uniformis (Theobald) 1901 Mimomyia chamberlaini (Ludlow) 1904 Mimomyia hybrida Leicester. 1908 Mimomyia intermedia (Barraud) 1929 Mimomyia luzonensis (Ludlow) 1905 Orthopodomyia anopheloides (Giles) 1903 Orthopodomyia flavithorax Barraud 1927 Toxorhynchites minimus (Thoebald) 1905 Toxorhynchites splendens (Wiedemann) 1819 Tripteroides affinis (Edwards) 1913 Tripteroides aranoides (Theobald) 1901 Tripteroides dofleini (Gunther) 1913 - E Uranotaenia bicolor Leicester 1908 Uranotaenia campestris Leicester 1908 Uranotaenia lateralis Ludlow 1905 Uranotaenia nivipleura Leicestor 1908 Uranotaenia obscura Edwards 1915 Uranotaenia rutherfordi Edwards 1922 - E Uranotaenia srilankensis Payton 1974 - E Verrallina spermathecus (Wijesundara 1951) (syn. Aedes spermathecus) - E
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