7 44 American Entomo/ogica! - Systematic Catalog of Culicidae

Belkin et al: Topotypic Middle American Mosquitoes 41
San Jeronimo, Laguna de Tamiahua: 9. Anopheles (N. ) bisignatus.
Tempoal: 22. Psorophora (J. ) Pisces.
MIDDLE AMERICA
List of Species
1. Trichoprosopon (Runchomyia) longipes (Fabricius, 1805). TYPE: Adult,
“Habitat in America meridionali Dom. Smidt Mus. Dom. Lund” (ZMC). BIO-
NOMICS: [Larvae probably in leaf axils and/or flower bracts of Araceae, Mu-
saceae and bromeliads; possibly in treeholes].
2. Sabethes (S.) cyaneus (Fabricius, 1805). TYPE: Adult, “Habitat in
America meridionali Dom. Smidt Mus. Dom. Lund” (ZMC). BIONOMIC S:
[Larvae in treeholes and bamboo with small lateral openings; bamboo traps of
this type should be used].
3. Psorophora (P. ) cilipes (Fabricius, 1805). TYPE: Adults, “Habitat in
America meridionali Dom. Smidt Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt” (ZMC). BIONO-
MICS: [Larvae in temporary rainpools choked by vegetation in the forest].
4. Psorophora (Grabhamia) cingulata (Fabricius, 1805). TYPE: 2 adults,
“Habitat in America meridionali Dom. Smidt Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt” (ZMC).
BIONOMICS: [Larvae probably in open temporary rainpools].
5. Aedes (Stegomyia) fasciatus (Fabricius, 1805) [= aegypti]. TYPE:
Adult, “Habitat in Americae Insulis Mus. Dom. Lund”, probably from St.
Croix, Virgin Islands (ZMC). BIONOMICS: [Larvae in domestic artificial
containers].
6. Aedes (Stegomyia) frater (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827) [= aegypti]. TYPE:
d, “Habitat in insulis Americae”, probably Martinique (NE’).ONOMICS:
[Larvae in domestic artificial containers].
List of Localities
The country of origin of the above species is not definitely known. How-
ever, we have provisionally selected type localities for these species on the
grounds indicated below.
FRENCH GUIANA
The 4 Fabrician species originating from “America meridionali” are
stated to have come from Smidt. Ella Zimsen (The type material of I. C. Fa-
bricius, Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1964: 14) indicates that on old well-pre-
served original labels from the Sehestedt and Lund collections the name is
spelled Schmidt and that in the 1780’s a surgeon, Johan Christian Schmidt,
and a customs-house officer, Adam Levin Smidt, both lived on St. Croix,
then a Danish possession. On the basis of the evidence of the original la-
bels we consider that the material came from the surgeon. The majority of
the species involved do not occur on the island of St. Croix or in the Les-
ser Antilles and furthermore the locality “America meridionali” probably in-
dicates the South American continent. The only contemporary Danish zoologi-
cal expedition to this area appears to be that of Julius Rohr (Zimsen, lot. cit.)
from the Danish West Indies. Some of the material collected by Rohr came
from Cayenne, French Guiana, including Toxorhynchites (L. ) haemarrhorda-
lis described by Fabricius. It seems probable that some of the material col-
lected on this expedition came into the hands of the surgeon, Johan C. Schmidt,