Diptera

(Mosquitoes & Flies)

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1922 Dyar

1940 Fisk & LeVan
1943 McGregor & Eads
1944 Randolf & O'Neil
1949 McCleskey

1950 Buxton
1951 Eads Menzies Ogden
1952 Buxton & Breland
[1955 Carpenter & LaCasse]
1956 Chandler
1956 Eades & Menzies
1957 Eads & Strom
1958 Hill Smittle Philips

[1963 Dodge]
1965 Flynn & Schoof
[1965 Wiseman]
1966 Haverfield & Hoffman

[1981 Darsie & Ward]
1986 Sprenger &
         Wuithiranyagool

1990 Moore et al.
1993 Womack

2005 Bradford et al.
2005 Darsie & Ward

notes:

-Introduced Species: introduced to US, adults bite by day (Dyar 1922)

-larvae can survive drying (Buxton & Breland 1952)

-the only known mosquito species known to transmit yellow fever in Texas, also transmits Dengue fever (Randolf & O'Neill 1944)