title: Mansonia titillans: New Resident Species or Infrequent Visitor in Chatham County, Georgia, and Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA.
abstract: In September, October, and November 2014, adult Mansonia titillans were collected at 4 separate sites near Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia, and 1 site in Muscogee County, GA, during routine mosquito surveillance. Although previously recorded from Beaufort County, SC, and several inland southern Georgia counties, recent reports of this species from coastal Georgia or South Carolina are lacking. These newly captured Ma. titillans specimens represent the first documented records for Muscogee County and Chatham County, GA, and may indicate a recent northern expansion or reintroduction of this species along the Georgia and South Carolina coast.
authors.affiliation: 1  Chatham County Mosquito Control, 65 Billy B. Hair Drive, Savannah, GA 31408.
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Moulis
authors.affiliation: 1  Chatham County Mosquito Control, 65 Billy B. Hair Drive, Savannah, GA 31408.
authors.forename: Laura F A W
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Peaty
authors.affiliation: 1  Chatham County Mosquito Control, 65 Billy B. Hair Drive, Savannah, GA 31408.
authors.forename: Jeffrey L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Heusel
authors.affiliation: 1  Chatham County Mosquito Control, 65 Billy B. Hair Drive, Savannah, GA 31408.
authors.forename: Henry B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Lewandowski
authors.affiliation: 2  Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Laboratory, Environmental Health Sciences Program, College of Health and Human Sciences, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723.
authors.forename: Bruce A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.affiliation: 3  Vector-Borne & Zoonotic Diseases Team, Environmental Health Section, Georgia Department of Public Health, 2 Peachtree Street, NW 13-414, Atlanta, GA 30303.
authors.forename: Rosmarie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.affiliation: 4  Beaufort County Mosquito Control, 84 Shanklin Road, Beaufort, SC 29906.
authors.forename: Elizabeth J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Hager
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D009033:Culicidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D005845:Georgia; D013022:South Carolina; D013045:Species Specificity
keywords: Georgia; Mansonia titillans; South Carolina; expansion; introduction; new record