Uranotaenia sapphirina

Uranotaenia sapphirina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Culicidae
Genus:	Uranotaenia
Subgenus:	Uranotaenia
Species:	U. sapphirina
Binomial name
Uranotaenia sapphirina (Osten Sacken, 1868)
Synonyms [1]
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]} It is a common species found throughout eastern North America. Uranotaenia sapphirina was found from an experiment to be unlike Uranotaenia lowii which feeds only on anurans (frogs and toads), instead feeding exclusively on annelid hosts such as earthworms and leeches. ^[4]

References

1. "Uranotaenia sapphirina Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Uranotaenia sapphirina". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
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.