Franklin Vaca-Moyano‡, Paul L. Duque§, Sandra Enríquez§, Vanessa Herrera§, Marco Sánchez-Murillo§, Erika Rivadeneira§, C. Alfonso Molina §Corresponding author: Paul L. Duque ( polduquebiologo@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Fabio Laurindo da Silva © Franklin Vaca-Moyano, Paul L. Duque, Sandra Enríquez, Vanessa Herrera, Marco Sánchez-Murillo, Erika Rivadeneira, C. Alfonso Molina . 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:
Vaca-Moyano F, Duque PL, Enríquez S, Herrera V, Sánchez-Murillo M, Rivadeneira E, Molina CA (2022) Wyeomyia abebela Dyar & Knab, 1908 and W. coenonus Dyar & Knab, 1913: new mosquito records (Diptera, Culicidae) in the Choco Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador, a biodiversity hotspot. Check List 18(2): 275-280. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.2.275 |  |
We report the first records of two mosquito species, Wyeomyia (Wyeomyia) abebela Dyar & Knab, 1908 and W. (Hystatomyia) coenonus Dyar & Knab, 1913, from the Choco Biosphere Reserve, a global biodiversity hotspot in Ecuador. We collected these mosquitoes in the Mashpi Lodge Reserve, a conserved natural area. Specimens were collected during their immature stages in bromeliads using a 375-ml absorber dropper. Our new data for W. abelela increases the geographical distribution of this species to include seven countries of America (Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and Ecuador); W. coenonus is now known from two countries of America (Panama and Ecuador), and our records of W. abelela and W. coenonus are the first from South America.