Catálogo das coleções entomológicas da Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo: (2.ª Série) I - Culicidae

Identification keys to the Anopheles mosquitoes of South America (Diptera: Culicidae). I. Introduction

“…As a basis for these keys, the primary types (holotypes and paratypes) and other specimens deposited in the Coleção Entomológica de Referência, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (FSP-USP) [ 36 – 38 ], Museo de Entomología, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia (MUSENUV) and the US National Mosquito Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA (USNMC), and original descriptions, keys, summaries and revisions from the published literature were examined. Primary publications for identification of Neotropical Anopheles include: key to genus Anopheles based on the morphology of male genitalia (Amazonian Brazil) [ 39 ]; keys to genus Anopheles based on the morphology of male genitalia, females and larvae (Venezuela) [ 40 – 44 ]; keys to Anopheles females and larvae (Brazil and other countries of South America) [ 45 , 46 ]; key to Anopheles subgenus Nyssorhynchus Blanchard, 1902 females (western Venezuela) [ 47 ]; keys to Anopheles subgenus Nyssorhynchus based on the morphology of male genitalia, females and larvae (Amazonian Region) [ 48 ]; revision of all stages of Anopheles subgenus Nyssorhynchus , Albimanus Section [ 49 ]; genus Anopheles , comprehensive (North and South America) [ 32 , 50 ]; keys to genus Anopheles females and larvae (Colombia) [ 51 ]; keys to genus Anopheles females and larvae (Venezuela, eastern and western South America, Central America and Panama) [ 52 – 55 ]; key to Anopheles subgenus Kerteszia Theobald, 1905 females [ 56 ]; keys to genus Anopheles male genitalia, larvae and eggs (Neotropics) [ 57 ]; revision of all stages of Anopheles subgenus Nyssorhynchus , Argyritarsis Section [ 58 ]; key to larvae (Venezuela) [ 59 ]; summary of Anopheles subgenus Nyssorhynchus , with definition of the Myzorhynchella Series [ 30 ]; key to females of Anopheles subgenus Nyssorhynchus (Venezuela) [ 60 ]; key to Anopheles females (Central America) [ 61 ]; key to Anopheles females (in Spanish) (Central America) [ 62 ]; and, revision of Anopheles subgenus Kerteszia [ 63 ].…”

Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Amazonian savannas of French Guiana with a description of two new species

“…In the Amazon biome, Cx. equinoxialis has only been collected in Brazil: initially in Belém in the state of Pará (Forattini et al 1973), then in Boa Vista and Caracarai in the state of Roraima (Pecor et al 1992). Culex ernanii was originally described based on a single male specimen collected in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil (Duret 1968a).…”

Catalog of the entomologic collections of the Faculty of Public Health of the University of Sao Paulo - (2nd series ii): Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)

“…The inventory of specimens of the subfamily Triatominae belonging to the Entomological collection of the Faculty of Public Health of the University of Sao Paulo, was prepared by checking the records of registrations, the data sheets and the observation of the deposited specimens. The regulations followed in this catalog are practically the same as those recommended in the previous series 10 - 12 :…”

“…Records of specimens of this collection received a new numbering sequence, preceded by the letter E (for Epidemiology), and it is scheduled to continue without interruption. Of this second series, an article was published reporting the Culicidae records of the then newly created collection 12 . The present paper resumes the publication these catalogues listing the specimens of Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduvidae) deposited in John Lane Collection .…”