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Notes on the Mosquitos of the Gilbert, Ellice and Tokelau Islands, and on Filariasis in the latter Group1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Marshall Laird
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It is confirmed that the scutellaris-growp mosquito of the Tokelau and Ellice Islands is Aëdes (Stegomyia) polynesiensis Marks. No other mosquitos are known from the former Group, but Culex (Culex). annulirostris Skuse, A. (Aëdimorphus) vexans nocturnus (Theo.) and A. (Stegomyia) aegypti (L.) are also recorded from Funafuti, Ellice Islands. C. annulirostris and A. vexans nocturnus are listed—apparently for the first time—from Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. Reference is made to the microfilaria rate at Nukunono in the Tokelau Group, and to some potential mosquito larval habitats, as yet unutilised, in all three Groups.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , August 1955 , pp. 291 - 300
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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