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Wyeomyia
Sign in to saveWyeomyia is a genus of mosquitoes first described in 1901 by Frederick Vincent Theobald. The genus's 140 species can be difficult to characterize because of their diversity and the need for additional taxonomic work to further delineate them. Adults resemble genus Limatus and Sabethes mosquitoes more closely than other genera in the New World tribe Sabethini, but differ by their scutal scales ranging in color from a relatively dull bronzy with a slight metallic sheen in most species, to a metallic gold. There are other distinguishing characters as well.
Species
Pitcher-plant Mosquito
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyCulicidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 441
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Culicidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- Trinidad And Tobago, Colombia, Ecuador
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Ecology
- Species
- Subgenus (''Wyeomyia'')
- Subgenus (''Antunesmyia'')
- Subgenus (''Caenomyiella'')
- Subgenus (''Cruzmyia'')
- Subgenus (''Decamyia'')
- Subgenus (''Dendromyia'')
- Subgenus (''Dodecamyia'')
- Subgenus (''Exallomyia'')
- Subgenus (''Hystatomyia'')
- Subgenus (''Menolepis'')
- Subgenus (''Miamyia'')
- Subgenus (''Nunezia'')
- Subgenus (''Phoniomyia'')
- Subgenus (''Prosopolepis'')
- Subgenus (''Spilonympha'')
- Subgenus (''Triamyia'')
- Subgenus (''Zinzala'')
- See also
- References
Wyeomyia is a genus of mosquitoes first described in 1901 by Frederick Vincent Theobald. The genus's 140 species can be difficult to characterize because of their diversity and the need for additional taxonomic work to further delineate them. Adults resemble genus Limatus and Sabethes mosquitoes more closely than other genera in the New World tribe Sabethini, but differ by their scutal scales ranging in color from a relatively dull bronzy with a slight metallic sheen in most species, to a metallic gold. There are other distinguishing characters as well.
==Distribution==
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