Updated Checklist of the Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of French Guiana.
The incredible mosquito species diversity in the Neotropics can provoke major confusion during vector control programs when precise identification is needed. This is especially true in French Guiana where studies on mosquito diversity practically ceased 35 yr ago. In order to fill this gap, we propose here an updated and comprehensive checklist of the mosquitoes of French Guiana, reflecting the latest changes in classification and geographical distribution and the recognition of current or erroneous synonymies. This work was undertaken in order to help ongoing and future research on mosquitoes in a broad range of disciplines such as ecology, biogeography, and medical entomology. Thirty-two valid species cited in older lists have been removed, and 24 species have been added including 12 species (comprising two new genera and three new subgenera) reported from French Guiana for the first time. New records are from collections conducted on various phytotelmata in French Guiana and include the following species: Onirion sp. cf Harbach and Peyton (2000), Sabethes (Peytonulus) hadrognathus Harbach, Sabethes (Peytonulus) paradoxus Harbach, Sabethes (Peytonulus) soperi Lane and Cerqueira, Sabethes (Sabethinus) idiogenes Harbach, Sabethes (Sabethes) quasicyaneus Peryassú, Runchomyia (Ctenogoeldia) magna (Theobald), Wyeomyia (Caenomyiella) sp. cf Harbach and Peyton (1990), Wyeomyia (Dendromyia) ypsipola Dyar, Wyeomyia (Hystatomyia) lamellata (Bonne-Wepster and Bonne), Wyeomyia (Miamyia) oblita (Lutz), and Toxorhynchites (Lynchiella) guadeloupensis (Dyar and Knab). At this time, the mosquitoes of French Guiana are represented by 235 species distributed across 22 genera, nine tribes, and two subfamilies.
Université Antilles-Guyane; Écologie des Forêts de Guyane (UMR-CNRS 8172), Campus Agronomique, BP 316, 97379 Kourou cedex, France. CNRS; Écologie des Forêts de Guyane (UMR-CNRS 8172), Campus Agronomique, BP 316, 97379 Kourou cedex, France. stantalaga@free.fr.
Stanislas
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Talaga
CNRS; Écologie des Forêts de Guyane (UMR-CNRS 8172), Campus Agronomique, BP 316, 97379 Kourou cedex, France. CNRS; Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (UMR-CNRS 5245), 31062 Toulouse, France. Université de Toulouse; UPS, INP, Ecolab, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France.
Alain
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Dejean
Unité d'Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, 23 Avenue Pasteur, BP 6010, 97306 Cayenne cedex, France.
Romuald
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Carinci
Unité d'Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, 23 Avenue Pasteur, BP 6010, 97306 Cayenne cedex, France.
Pascal
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Gaborit
Unité d'Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, 23 Avenue Pasteur, BP 6010, 97306 Cayenne cedex, France.
Isabelle
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Dusfour
Unité d'Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, 23 Avenue Pasteur, BP 6010, 97306 Cayenne cedex, France.
Romain
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Girod
D063147:Animal Distribution; D000818:Animals; D009033:Culicidae / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005616:French Guiana; D008297:Male
Neotropics; South America; culicid; species checklist; vector