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Paraedes barraudi Barraud 1934

Description

Paraedes barraudi Barraud, 1934

Distribution. Kerala: Wayanad District—Periya. Tamil Nadu: Nilgiris District—Nilgiri Hills. Non-mangrove.

Habitat dependence. Specific/semi-specific—Adults and larvae. Immature stages of this species were collected from crabholes near spring pools, rice fields and banana groves in shade in rainforests. This and the next two species of Paraedes collected in India were found primarily in crabholes in banana groves in heavily shaded areas of rainforests.

References. Rajavel et al. (2011); Tyagi et al. (2016).

Notes

Published as part of NATARAJAN, R., GOPALAKRISHNAN, S., SHRIRAM, A. N. & KUMAR, ASHWANI, 2024, Mosquitoes in crabholes: A hidden realm of culicid diversity in India, pp. 397-412 in Zootaxa 5437 (3) on page 405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/10985105

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References

  • Barraud, P. J. (1934) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera V. Family Culicidae. Tribes Megarhinini and Culicini. Taylor and Francis, London, xxviii + 463 pp., 8 pls.
  • Rajavel, A. R., Natarajan, R., Vaidyanathan, K. & Jambulingam, P. (2011) Systematic list of the species added to the mosquito museum at the Vector Control Research Centre, Pondicherry, India. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 27 (1), 8 - 14. https: // doi. org / 10.2987 / 8756 - 971 X- 27.1.8
  • Tyagi, B. K., Munirathinam, A. & Vengatesh, A. (2016) An inventory of the authentically identified and classified mosquito taxa in the ' CRME Museum', with annotations on its significance in taxonomic research in India. International Journal of Mosquito Research, 3 (4), 58 - 113.