Uranotaenia sapphirina
Uranotaenia sapphirina is a species of mosquito in the family Culicidae.[1][2][3] Uranotaenia sapphirina is a common species throughout Eastern North America. It was found from an experiment that unlike Uranotaenia lowii which feeds only on anurans (frogs and toads), Uranotaenia sapphirina exclusively fed on annelid hosts such as earthworm and leeches.[4]
| Uranotaenia sapphirina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Uranotaenia |
| Species: | U. sapphirina |
| Binomial name | |
| Uranotaenia sapphirina (Osten Sacken, 1868) | |
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References
- "Uranotaenia sapphirina Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- "Uranotaenia sapphirina". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- "Uranotaenia sapphirina species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- Reeves, Holderman, Blosser, Gillett-Kaufman, Kawahara, Kaufman, Burkett- Cadena (2018). "Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns". Communications Biology. 1: 92. doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0096-5. PMC 6123777. PMID 30271973.
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