Lutzia

This article is about the mosquito genus. For the plant genus, see Lutzia (plant).
Not to be confused with Luzia or Lucia.

Lutzia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Culicidae
Genus:
Lutzia

Theobald, 1903

Lutzia is a genus of mosquitos. First described in 1903 by Frederick Vincent Theobald,[1] it includes species whose larval stages exhibit predatory behavior. The type species is Lutzia bigoti.[2]

Bionomics

The genus includes two species with Neotropical distribution, four in Asia and Australasia, one Afrotropical, and one occurring in the Ogasawara Islands of Japan.[2]

Laboratory experiments on predation by Lutzia (Metalutzia) fuscana under arid conditions showed that it preyed primarily on Aedes aegypti larvae, and to lesser extents on Anopheles stephensi and Culex quinquefasciatus larvae, with an average daily consumption of 18-19 larvae/day, suggesting that under the proper conditions they could be useful in reducing domestic mosquito breeding in desert environments where, due to limited water sources, mosquito vectors must share the available breeding habitat.[citation needed]

Subgenera and species

Subgenera and species listed by the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit:[3]

References

  1. ^ Frederick V. Theobald. 1903. A monograph of Culicidae or mosquitoes, III. London: British Museum (Natural History). xv + 359pp.; 155; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/131700-8.Pdf Archived 2016-03-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ a b Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016a. "Lutzia" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://wrbu.si.edu/generapages/lutzia.htm Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 21 Feb 2016.
  3. ^ Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016b. "Genus Lutzia Theobald" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=38, accessed 21 Feb 2016.
  4. ^ Pradya Somboon and Ralph E Harbach. 2019. Lutzia (Metalutzia) chiangmaiensis n. sp. (Diptera: Culicidae), Formal Name for the Chiang Mai (CM) Form of the Genus Lutzia in Thailand. Journal of Medical Entomology, tjz072, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjz072, published 30 May 2019.