title: A checklist of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Pondicherry, India with notes on new area records.
abstract: A checklist of mosquito species for Pondicherry, India, is presented based on collections made from November 1995 to September 1997. Mosquitoes of 64 species were found belonging to 23 subgenera and 14 genera, Aedeomyia, Aedes, Anopheles, Armigeres, Coquillettidia, Culex, Ficalbia, Malaya, Mansonia, Mimomyia, Ochlerotatus, Toxorhynchites, Uranotaenia, and Verrallina. We report 25 new species for Pondicherry.
authors.affiliation: Vector Control Research Centre (ICMR), Pondicherry 605 006, India.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Rajavel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Natarajan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vaidyanathan
mesh_terms: D000330:Aedes; D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles; D003465:Culex; D009033:Culicidae; D007194:India; D007814:Larva; D011996:Records