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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788324303321

Autore

Burkett-Cadena Nathan D

Titolo

Mosquitoes of the southeastern United States / / Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : University of Alabama Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8173-8648-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

595.77/2

Soggetti

Insects - Southern States

Mosquitoes - Southern States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. An Illustrated Key for Identifying the Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States; Key to Genera of Adult Female Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States; Key to Genera of Fourth-Instar Mosquito Larvae of the Southeastern United States; Part Two. Species Accounts; Aedes; Anopheles; Coquillettidia; Culex; Culiseta; Mansonia; Orthopodomyia; Psorophora; Toxorhynchites; Uranotaenia; Wyeomyia; Glossary; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States is a full-color, highly illustrated guide to the sixty-four known species of mosquitoes in eleven genera that populate the South--from the Gulf Coastal states to the Carolinas. In addition to detailed and fully illustrated identification keys for both larvae and adults, Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States includes information on the mosquito's lifecycle, interaction with humans, and biological diversity in the southeast. This area of the country has a rich mosquito fauna with diverse sp