Year : 2023, Volume : 85, Issue : 4
First page : ( 966) Last page : ( 968)
Print ISSN : 0367-8288. Online ISSN : 0974-8172. Published online : 2023 December 04.
Article DOI : 10.55446/IJE.2023.901

New Record of a Mosquito Uranotaenia lowii (Theobald, 1901) from India

Goud Santhosh^*, Pattnaik Subasini, Biswal Ipsita, Seth Jaya Kishor, Hazra Rupenangshu Kumar¹, Panda Barsa Baisalini¹

Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Berhampur University, Berhampur760007, Odisha, India

¹ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneshwar751023, Odisha, India

^*Email: santhosh1090696@gmail.com (corresponding author): ORCID ID 0000-0003-0574-4124

Online Published on 04 January, 2024.

Received:  December,  2022; :  January,  2023; Accepted:  January,  2023; :  January,  2023.

Abstract

This study reports Uranotaenia lowii (Theobald, 1901) as a new record from India. It was collected from Berhampur University Campus, District Ganjam, Odisha, India. This species is not considered to have medical importance, as it does not bite mammals and feeds upon the blood of reptiles and amphibians.

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Keywords

Uranotaenia lowii, Culicidae, Pale-footed, Acoustic sensitivity, A new record, Odisha, India, Diversity, Zoogeography, Vector, Medical importance.

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