A crab-hole mosquito, Ochlerotatus baisasi, feeding on mudskipper (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
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.
Okudo
Haruo
H
Miwa Junior High School, 519 Makabe, Itoman, Okinawa 901-0336, Japan.
Toma
Takako
T
Sasaki
Hitoshi
H
Higa
Yukiko
Y
Fujikawa
Mayumi
M
Miyagi
Ichiro
I
Okazawa
Takao
T
D000818:Animals; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D007564:Japan; D044969:Ochlerotatus / Q000502:physiology*; D010473:Perciformes / Q000469:parasitology*