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

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List of Localities
All the species originally described from Nicaragua are labeled Bluefields
and were probably collected both on the coast and in interior upriver from
Bluefields.
PANAMA AND CANAL ZONE
List of Species
’ 1. Chagasia bathana (Dyar in Curry, 1928). TYPE: Holotype 9, near Gatun
(Canal Zone), 27 Dee 1927, CT-H. Bath (USNM, 40859). BIONOMICS: Larvae
and pupae among grass stems in narrow channels of swiftly flowing streams
below rapids or falls, occasionally in quieter backwaters of the rapids or falls
or in the sluggish streams below. [The larvae can be collected throughout the
year but are most abundant during the rainy season (Arnett 1947: 187)]. Holo-
type bred from larva.
2. Anopheles (Stethomyia) kompi Edwards, 1930. TYPE: Holotype d, Al-
mirante (Bocas de1 Toro), Feb 1928, W. H. W. Komp (USNM). BIONOMICS:
[Larvae in very slow moving, drying streams or in pools left by drying streams
in shady jungles. Apparently they are associated with an alga (Arnett 1947:
188)].
3. Anopheles (A.) niveopalpis Ludlow, 1919 [= eiseni]. TYPE: Holotype 9,
Camacho Reservoir, Empire (Canal Zone), 28 July 1928 (USNM). BIONOMICS:
[Larvae in shaded pools beside streams and in woods, in open treeholes and
broken bamboo, and in coconut husks].
4. Anopheles (A.) neomaculipalpus Curry, 1931. TYPE: d, 9, larva and
pupa, near Gatun (Canal Zone) and in the flat coastal savannas east of Panama
City (Panama), no other data (LU). BIONOMICS: Larvae in cattle tracks ex-
posed to the sun in low lying marshy pastures.
5. Anopheles (A.) chiriquiensis Komp, 1936 [= parapunctipennis]. TYPE:
Lectotype d with genitalia slide, Volcan de Chiriqui (Chiriqui), elev. 6500 ft,
7 Feb 1935, W. H. W. Komp (USNM, 51882; selection of Stone and Knight
1956b: 277). BIONOMICS: Larvae and pupae in cold spring among rocks
(about 57 F). Adults in hollow trees and under stream banks.
6. Anopheles (A.) punctimacula Dyar & Knab, 1906. TYPE: Holotype
adult, Colon (Colon), 2 Feb 1904, W. M. Black (USNM, 9979). BIONOMICS:
[Larvae in swift or drying streams, ponds, ditches, rivers and seepage areas;
abundant throughout the year. Adults in native houses during the day, abun-
dant at screens at night, will bite man even during the day (Arnett 1947: 193)].
7. Anopheles (A.) malefactor Dyar & Knab, 1907 [= punctimacula]. TYPE:
Lectotype ? (136.1) with associated larval skin (portion of abdomen) and pupal
skin, upper Rio Chagres (Panama), 7 June 1907, A. Busck (USNM, 10877; se-
lection of Stone and Knight 1956b: 278). BIONOMICS: Larvae in still pool of
drying mountain spring.
8. Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) gorgasi Dyar & Knab, 1907 [= albimanus].
TYPE: Holotype 9, La Boca (Canal Zone), date not specified, A. H. Jennings
(USNM, 10863). BIONOMICS: [Larvae in vegetation in open sunlit ground
waters] .
9. Anopheles (N. ) anomalophyllus Komp, 1936. TYPE: Holotype d with
genitalia slide, Wenham’s farm, near Almirante (Bocas de1 Toro), Feb 1927,