crab-hole mosquito, Ochlerotatus baisasi, feeding on mudskipper (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Ochlerotatus baisasi was observed and photographed feeding on a mudskipper (Periophthalmus argentilineatus). Origin of blood meals in the stomachs of female mosquitoes collected at burrows of land crabs and mud lobsters in the mangrove forests of Oura, Okinawa, and Komi, Iriomote (the Ryukyu Islands...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inJournal of the American Mosquito Control Association Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 134 - 137
Main Authors Okudo, H, Toma, T, Sasaki, H, Higa, Y, Fujikawa, M, Miyagi, I, Okazawa, T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.06.2004
Subjects
Animals
blood meal identification
blood meal source
burrows
crab burrows
Culicidae
Feeding Behavior
fish
Gobiidae
habitats
hematophagous insects
hematophagy
Japan
mangrove forests
new host records
Ochlerotatus
Ochlerotatus - physiology
Perciformes - parasitology
Periophthalmus argentilineatus
Japan
Ryukyu Archipelago
Online AccessGet more information

Cover

More Information
Summary:Ochlerotatus baisasi was observed and photographed feeding on a mudskipper (Periophthalmus argentilineatus). Origin of blood meals in the stomachs of female mosquitoes collected at burrows of land crabs and mud lobsters in the mangrove forests of Oura, Okinawa, and Komi, Iriomote (the Ryukyu Islands), was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to be from a fish source.
ISSN:8756-971X
1943-6270