1. Discrimination of Uranotaenia species (Diptera: Culicidae) from Madagascar based on morphology and wing morphometric traits
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Sébastien Boyer, Antsa Rakotonirina, Friederike Woog, Fano José Randrianambinintsoa, Romain Girod, Michaël Luciano Tantely, Unité d'Entomologie Médicale [Antananarivo, Madagascar] (IPM), Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Epidémiosurveillance de protozooses à transmission alimentaire et vectorielle (ESCAPE), Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA), Université d'Antananarivo, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (SMNS), Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, This study was supported by the Institute Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar and the State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart., Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), and Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES)
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0106 biological sciences ,food.ingredient ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,010607 zoology ,Zoology ,Biology ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,MESH: Wings, Animal ,MESH: Madagascar ,food ,morphology ,Madagascar ,Animals ,Wings, Animal ,MESH: Animals ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Taxonomy ,Fauna of Madagascar ,wing morphometry ,Wing ,Diptera ,Uranotaenia neireti ,Biodiversity ,Ur. alboabdominalis ,Culicidae ,Taxon ,Ur. mayottensis ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Taxonomy (biology) ,MESH: Culicidae ,Uranotaenia - Abstract
International audience; The genus Uranotaenia (Diptera: Culicidae) has been well documented in Madagascar where it includes 73 species, 89.4% being endemic. However, one problem is that most species are morphologically similar in the adult stage. Here, 713 Uranotaenia specimens collected in the tropical forests of Anorana and Maromizaha between 2008 and 2014 were examined. Using the dichotomous keys for the Uranotaenia fauna of Madagascar published in 2004, three species were identified: Uranotaenia neireti (220), Ur. alboabdominalis (110) and Ur. mayottensis (28). The other specimens (355) were not identifiable and were classified as Uranotaenia sp1. Using wing morphometry, the four taxa were classified into four morphogroups. Within the Uranotaenia sp1 group, specimens from the Anorana forest and those from the Maromizaha forest overlapped. This result suggests that wing morphometric traits could be a good marker to distinguish Uranotaenia species in Madagascar.
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- 2020