An updated checklist of mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) from Madagascar

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Table 1

Distribution of restricted endemic species for each Malagasy bioclimatic domain.

	Endemic East	Endemic West	Endemic Sambirano	Endemic North	Endemic Centre	Endemic Mountain	Endemic Madagascar^†	Endemic Madagascar and Comoros^§	Number of species^#
Aedeomyia	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3
Aedes	7	0	0	1	0	0	18	2	35
Anopheles	2	0	0	0	1	1	11	1	26
Coquillettidia	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3
Culex	3	0	0	0	4	0	9	3	50^*
Eretmapodites	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Ficalbia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Hodgesia	?	0	0	0	0	0	?	0	≥1
Lutzia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Mansonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Mimomyia	12	0	1	0	2	0	17	0	22
Orthopodomyia	3	0	0	1	1	1	8	0	8
Toxorhynchites	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	6
Uranotaenia	42	1	0	0	2	2	65	4	73
Total	76	1	1	2	10	4^**	138	10	235

^†

Endemic mosquitoes restricted to Madagascar.

^§

Endemic mosquitoes in Madagascar and the Comoros archipelago.

Species described and/or clearly identified.

The species Culex thalassius, mentioned with doubt in Madagascar by Knight and Stone [132] and listed in Madagascar by the site WRBU (www.mosquitocatalog.org/, August 2014) [244], has not been recorded in this table; similarly the species belonging to the Rima group surveyed but remaining unidentified by Rhodain et al. [195] have not been recorded. Cx. pipiens and Cx. quinquefasciatus were counted as two separate species following the conclusion of Harbach [118].

^**

The four species of mosquitoes known only in mountains areas (altitude >1500 m.) are usually associated with the central bioclimatic domain.

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