Check List 16(4): 1085-1093, doi: 10.15560/16.4.1085
New records of Culicidae (Diptera) in agricultural oases of San Juan province, Argentina
expand article infoLeonardo Martín Díaz Nieto‡, Alberico Fernando Murúa§, Florencia Andrea Cano|, Magdalena Laurito, Walter Ricardo Almirón, Liliana Salvá|
‡ Departamento de Biología - Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan-CONICET, San Juan, Argentina§ Departamento de Biología - Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina| Programa Provincial Control de Vectores, Ministerio de Salud Pública, Gobierno de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina¶ Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET-UNC), Centro de Investigaciones Entomológicas de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba., Córdoba, Argentina

Corresponding author: Leonardo Martín Díaz Nieto ( ldiaznieto@unsj-cuim.edu.ar )

Academic editor: Maíra Araújo
© Leonardo Martín Díaz Nieto, Alberico Fernando Murúa, Florencia Andrea Cano, Magdalena Laurito, Walter Ricardo Almirón, Liliana Salvá.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Díaz Nieto LM, Murúa AF, Cano FA, Laurito M, Almirón WR, Salvá L (2020) New records of Culicidae (Diptera) in agricultural oases of San Juan province, Argentina. Check List 16(4): 1085-1093. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.4.1085
Open Access
Abstract
We report eight new Culicidae records from San Juan province, Argentina: Anopheles argyritarsis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827; Anopheles neomaculipalpus Curry, 1931; Culex acharistus Root, 1927; Culex apicinus Philippi, 1965; Culex maxi Dyar, 1928; Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823; Culex saltanensis Dyar, 1928; and Haemagogus spegazzinii Brethes, 1912. The geographic distribution of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762), Aedes albifasciatus (Macquart, 1838), Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Theobald, 1901, Culex pipiens Linneaus, 1758, Culex tramazayguesi Duret, 1954, and Psorophora cyanescens (Coquillet, 1902) is extended. Data on collection localities, types of breeding sites and health importance are also presented.
Keywords
Diversity, irrigated areas, mosquitoes