title: A crab-hole mosquito, Ochlerotatus baisasi, feeding on mudskipper (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
abstract: Ochlerotatus baisasi was observed and photographed feeding on a mudskipper (Periophthalmus argentilineatus). Origin of blood meals in the stomachs of female mosquitoes collected at burrows of land crabs and mud lobsters in the mangrove forests of Oura, Okinawa, and Komi, Iriomote (the Ryukyu Islands), was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to be from a fish source.
authors.affiliation: Miwa Junior High School, 519 Makabe, Itoman, Okinawa 901-0336, Japan.
authors.forename: Haruo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okudo
authors.forename: Takako
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toma
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Yukiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Higa
authors.forename: Mayumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujikawa
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Miyagi
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okazawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D007564:Japan; D044969:Ochlerotatus / Q000502:physiology*; D010473:Perciformes / Q000469:parasitology*