British Columbia’s 50th mosquito species

Authors

  • Michael Jackson Culex Environmental
  • Sylvia Breton Culex Environmental
  • Chelsea Pyles Culex Environmental
  • Peter Belton Simon Fraser University

Keywords:

mosquitoes, Aedes schizopinax, distribution, range expansion

Abstract

Larvae of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) schizopinax Dyar 1929 were collected by Sylvia Breton in a survey by Culex Environmental for the District of Sparwood on May 12 2013 from a roadside pool near Sparwood, some 20km west of the Alberta border.

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Published

2014-05-27

Issue

Vol. 110 (2013): Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia

Section

Scientific Notes

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