Research on the mosquitoes of Angola - Systematic Catalog of ...

RIBEIRO, H. & RAMOS, H. Cunha -- <strong>Research</strong> on the mosquitoes o[ .4ngola -- X
Figs. 1, 3, 6 and 12 show typical breeding places of C. tigripes.
The association of larval tigripes with other predatory larvae of any
of the Angolan species of Eretmapodites, Mucidus or Toxorynchites was
never observed by the writers, pointing to competition as other important
limiting factor for breeding of tigripes. It is also to be noted that in 10
out of the 104 recorded larval biotopes of tigripes no larvae of any other
mosquito were found, which seems to show that in an appreciable percentage
of breeding places pupation of tigripes is attained at about the
same time as the exhaustion of the associated prey larvae of other mosquitoes.
Only 6 - 5 were caught as adults, the remainder of our adult
material being laboratory-reared. All the males were caught at rest inside
a hen-house, at about 7.30 a.m. Two of the females were taken outdoors
in the afternoon, one of them resting on the inside walls of a drum, in
peridomestic habitat, and the other at rest on plants in a public garden.
The remaining four females were caught early morning (6.30-7.30)
while resting indoors, on the walls of human habitation, two of them
engorged. It is possible that these two females had fed on human blood,
as it was also recorded by Haddow et al. (35) in Uganda. However, tigripes
was never seen by the writers landing on man and there is a general
agreement as to the marked zoophilic preferences of this species (36) (37).
7.2 -- Subgenus Maillotia Theobald, 1907
The World Catalog by Knight & Stone (23) lists only 9 species and
2 subspecies under subgenus Maillotia endemic either of the Ethiopian
Region or of the Mediterranean Subregion (of the Palaearctic).
Of the 6 Ethiopian species, 2 are restricted to Madagascar and 3
other species occurring in the mainland are endemic to the southernmost
part of the East and South African Subregion. The only now known
Angolan species of Mallotia is also the only widely distributed Ethiopian
species of the subgenus.
7.2.1--Culex (Maillotia) salisburiensis salisburiensis Theobald, 1901
New record for Angola of the subgenus, species and subspecies.
54 Estud., Ens. e Doc.- 134