📸 Huge thanks to Nil Rahola and Luciano Mucci for their outstanding macrophotography work.
🔗 All publications are freely available on Zenodo.

#Entomology #Mosquitoes #Culicidae #Anopheles #Toxorhynchites #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #VectorBiology #Zenodo #Research #Afrotropical

🦟 New release on Zenodo!
Together with Nil Rahola, we’ve published an illustrated identification key to the genera of Culicidae (mosquitoes) from the Afrotropical region — in French.
🔗 https://zenodo.org/records/17521013

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Clé d'identification des genres de Moustiques (Diptera : Culicidae), mâles et femelles, Région Afrotropicale.

Clé illustrée (photographies macroscopiques) et commentée, en français, pour l'identification des genres de moustiques (DIPTERA : Culicidae) de la région afrotropicale. La clé est valide pour l'identification des mâles et femelles. Elle reprend et adapte des travaux antérieurs, notamment: Service MW. Handbook to the Afrotropical Toxorhynchitine and Culicine Mosquitoes, Excepting Aedes and Culex. British Museum (Natural History); 1990. Robert V, Ndiaye EH, Rahola N, Le Goff G, Boussès P, Diallo D, et al. Clés dichotomiques illustrées d’identification des femelles et des larves de moustiques (Diptera : Culicidae) du Burkina Faso, Cap-Vert, Gambie, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Sénégal et Tchad. Montpellier: IRD; 2022. Available: https://doi.org/10.23708/fdi:010084866 [accessed 30 Sep 2025]  Baldacchino F, Paupy C, Rahola N. Clé de détermination des Culicidae présents en Afrique Centrale et au GABON (document de travail). 2014.  Les photographies ont majoritairement été réalisées sur des individus de la Collection ARIM (https://arim.ird.fr/)

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An Elephant Mosquito (genus Toxorhynchites) spotted at Windsor Nature Park, Singapore on 8 Feb 2025. These large forest mosquitoes are not blood-suckers. And their larvae feed on other mosquito larvae (like those of Aedes aegypti), so they are considered a beneficial species.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260984657 ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Mosquitoes #Culicidae

Its Friday! Here's one of my local dengue vectors. If you know the genus or species, please tell me.

#FlyDay #Diptera #SriLanka #Insects #Arthropods #Culicinae #Culicidae #Mosquito

Créditos: Grupo de Estudio de #Mosquitos de #FCEN #UBA, Agustin Lopez Pacheco, Gustavo Trekman

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Expropiado de las redes privativas: Información sobre el #AedesAegypti

Créditos: Grupo de Estudio de #Mosquitos de #FCEN #UBA, Agustin Lopez Pacheco, Gustavo Trekman

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A mosquito, gathering a blood meal from a knuckle of the hand that wasn't holding the camera. I admire her white tufts and bristly antennae.

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Going to end this fly mini-series with a member of one of the earliest-diverging branches of flies: a mosquito!

This is an elephant mosquito (Toxorhynchites speciosus), so called because they're huge, not elephant predators! They're actually friends: the adults eat nectar and the babies eat other mosquitoes' larvae, especially disease-transmitting tiger mosquitoes!

#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Insect #Nature #Fly #Flies #Diptera #Arthropod #Culicidae

I like all flies, but some are less favorite than others. Here's a perfectly adequate treehole mosquito on my hand.

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