Uranotaenia sapphirina

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)
Synonyms
	Aedes sapphirina Osten Sacken, 1868 ; Uranotaenia coquilletti Dyar and Knab, 1906 ;

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 which feeds only on anurans (frogs and toads), Uranotaenia sapphirina exclusively fed on annelid hosts such as earthworm and leeches.^[4]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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[itis-1] "Uranotaenia sapphirina Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

[gbif-2] "Uranotaenia sapphirina". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

[buglink-3] "Uranotaenia sapphirina species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

[4] 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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