New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts

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Identification keys to larval and adult female mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of New Zealand

Amy E. Snell

Ecology and Health Research Centre
Department of Public Health
Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of Otago
P.O. Box 7343
Wellington South, New Zealand
amy.snell@wnmeds.ac.nz

Abstract  Keys are presented for the identification of larval and adult female life stages of the 12 endemic and four exotic mosquito species known for New Zealand (the keys are to species not genera). The keys include the recent arrival, Ochlerotatus (Ochlerotatus) camptorhynchus (Thomson), and a monotypic genus endemic to New Zealand. A number of Aedine subgenera have been recently raised to genus level (Reinert et al. 2004; Reinert & Harbach 2005) and old and new nomenclature are both given. The keys combine previously scattered information about the current New Zealand mosquito fauna and will assist future biosecurity surveillance and further studies involving mosquitoes as potential arbovirus vectors.

Keywords  mosquitoes; Culicidae; taxonomy; adults; larvae; New Zealand

Z04034; Received 14 September 2004; accepted 20 January 2005; Online publication date 13 May 2005
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2005, Vol. 32: 99–110
0301–4223/05/3202–0099 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005

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