The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Diptera

(Mosquitoes & Flies)

CULICIDAE

Toxorhynchites rutilus (Dyar & Knab)




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Synonyms:  Megarhinus septontrionalis Dyar & Knab
                                           (Breland 1949b, 1949c; Dyar 1922; McCleskey 1949; McGregor & Eads 1943; Randolf & O'Neill
                                             1944; Rueger & Druce 1950; Wilkins 1948)

As Subspecies:
                   Toxorhynchites rutilus septentrionalis
(Dyar & Knab)
                                           (Carpenter & LaCasse 1955; Darsie & Ward 1981, 2005; Dodge 1963; Duhrkopf 1994; Eads, Menzies
                                             & Ogden 1951; Fournier et al. 1989 in Duhrkopf 1984; Hill, Smittle & Philips 1958; Jenkins 1949;
                                             Sprenger & Wuithiranyagool 1986; Stone et al. 1983; Trimble & Smith 1975)

Distribution Citations

1922 Dyar

1943 McGregor & Eads
1944 Randolf & O'Neill
1948 Wilkins
1949b Breland
1949c Breland
1949 Jenkins
1949 McCleskey

1950 Rueger & Druce
1951 Eads Menzies Ogden
[1955 Carpenter & LaCasse]
1958 Hill Smittle Philips

[1963 Dodge]
[1965 Wiseman]

[1975 Trimble & Smith]
[1978 Pennak]

 

[1981 Darsie & Ward]
[1983 Stone et al.]
1986 Sprenger &
         Wuithiranyagool
1989 Fournier et al. in
         Duhrkopf 1984

1994 Duhrkopf

2005 Darsie & Ward

 

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-breeds in spring and summer (McGregor & Eads 1943)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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