Language: Chinese with Latin name Index
ISBN/ISSN: 9787541633775
Published on: 2010-01
Hardcover
Volume One: 394 pages with 147 plates
Volume Two: 750 pages with 137 plates
The Mosquito fauna of Yunnan in two volumes, is a comprehensive work on mosquitoes of Yunnan Province. The present results on the research into the ecological habits and the characteristics of mosquitoes in Yunnan province are described in detail in volume one of this book. In the second volume, there is recorded total of 49 species or subspecies of mosquitoes which belong to Subgenus Anopheles and Subgenus Cellia including their characteristics for identification, morphology descriptions, geographical distribution, breeding places etc. The taxonomic positions of some species are also discussed. In the book, there are 74 illustrations, 147 plates of line drawings which can be referred to easy identification.
The volume two includes of mosquito species in Culicinae and Toxorhynchitnae. Its main contents cover the biology, summary, morphological description, the deys and systematic proposition for Culicinae mosquitoes. In this book, a total of 240 species of 28 subgenera in 18 genera from Culicinae and 8 species of 1 genera in Toxorhynchitnae were described in Yunnan province, up to now discovered; in the book, it has been noted 53 new species and 26 new recorder species in China since 1980, as well as 130 species, 3 subgenera and 2 genera only were found in Yunnan. Each species in the book was noted by its identifying characteristic, morphological description, distribution, ecological behave and taxonomic discussion etc. In the book, it was attached by 1400 copies of figures and 10 colure pictures in 137 pages, all of their providing authors the references on mosquito taxonomy.
Volume 1
Subfamily Anopheles
Genus Anopheles Meigen, 1818
Subgenus Anopheles Meigen, 1818
Subgenus Cellia Theobald, 1901
Subgenus Cellia Theobald, 1902
Plates
Index
References
Volume 2
Part I Subfamily Culicinae
I Tribe Aedini
Genus Aedes Meigen, 1818
Genus Ayurakitia Thurrnan, 1954
Genus Heizmannia Ludlow, 1905
Genus Ochlerotatus Lynch Arribalzaga, 1891
Genus Udaya Thurman, 1954
Geuus Verrallina Theobald, 1903
II Tribe Armigerini
Genus Armigeres Theobald, 1901
III Tribe Coquillettidiini
Genus Coquillettidia Dyar, 1905
Genus Mimomyia Theobald, 1903
IV Tribe Culicini
Genus Culex Linnaeus 1758
V Tribe Culisetini
Genus Culiseta Felt, 1904
VI Tribe Ficalbiini
Genus Ficalbia Theobald
VII Tribe Mansoniini
Genus Mansonia Blanchard, 1901
VIII Tribe Orthopodomyiini
Genus Orthopodomyia Theobald, 1904
IX Tribe Sabethini
GENUS Malaya Leicester, 1908
Genus Topmyai Leicester, 1908
Genus Tripteroides Giles, 1904
X Tribe Uranotaeniini
Genus Uanotaenia Lvnch Arribalzaga, 1891
Part II Subfamily Toxorhynchitinae
Genus Toxorhynchites Theobald, 1901
Part III Plates
Index
References
