Toxorhynchites

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Culicoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Nematocera Infraordo: Culicomorpha Superfamilia: Culicoidea

Familia: Culicidae
Subfamilia: Culicinae
Tribus: Toxorhynchitini
Genus: Toxorhynchites
Subgenera: T. (Afrorhynchus) – T. (Ankylorhynchus) – T. (Lynchiella) – T. (Toxorhynchites)

Name

Toxorhynchites Theobald, 1901

Type species: Toxorhynchites brevipalpis Theobald, 1901

Synonymy

Megarhinus Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827 [non Rafinesque, 1820]
Ankylorhynchus Lutz, 1904
Lynchiella Lahille, 1904
Worcesteria Banks, 1906
Teromyia Leicester, 1908

References

Banks, C. S. 1906. A new genus and species of Culicidae. Philippine Journal of Science 1: 779–785.
Brunetti, E. 1914. Critical review of genera in Culicidae. Records of the Indian Museum 10: 15–73.
Edwards, F. W. 1932. Genera Insectorum. Diptera. Family Culicidae. 258 pp.
Krishnamoorthy, R. et al. 2013: Description of a new species, Toxorhynchites (Toxorhynchites) tyagii (Diptera: Culicidae), from Nilgiri hills, Western Ghats, southern India. Zootaxa 3701(4): 447–459. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.4.4 Reference page.
Lahille, D. F. 1904. Notes sur la classification des moustiques. Actas y Trabajos del Segundo Congreso Medico Latino-Americano, Buenos Aires 2: 71–96.
Lane, J. 1944. A tribo Megarhinini no Brasil Meridional. Revista de Entomologia, Rio de Janeiro 15: 172–190.
Lane, J. 1953. Neotropical Culicidae, Volume I. São Paulo, Brazil, 548 pp.
Leicester, G.F. 1908. The Culicidae of Malaya. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federated Malay States 3(3): 18–261. Reference page.
Lutz, A. 1904. pg. 53. In: C. Bourroul (ed.), Mosquitos do Brasil. Bahia, 78 pp.
Mendez-Andrade, A., Rivera-García, K.D. & Ibáñez-Bernal, S. 2019. Notes on the Toxorhynchites of Mexico: redescription of Tx. moctezuma (Dyar & Knab) and new record for Tx. grandiosus (Williston) in Veracruz (Diptera: Culicidae). Zootaxa 4576(1): 140–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.7 Reference page.
Robineau-Desvoidy, J.B. 1827. Essai sur la tribu des Culicides. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 3: 390–413. Reference page.
Stone, A. 1948. A change of name in mosquitoes. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 50: 161.
Theobald, F. V. 1901. A monograph of the Culicidae or mosquitoes. Volume 1. London, 424 pp.
Theobald, F. V. 1901. The classification of mosquitoes. The Journal of Tropical Medicine 4: 229–235.

Vernacular names

English: mosquito hawks
日本語: オオカ属