<i>Aedes pertinax</i>, a Newly Recognized Mosquito Species in the United States

Shroyer, Donald A.; Harrison, Bruce A.; Bintz, Brittania J.; Wilson, Mark; Sither, Charles B.; Byrd, Brian D

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“…We used previously published larval habitat information [ 17 , 59 , 60 ] and other publicly available resources (The Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory available at http://mosquito-taxonomic-inventory.info ) to assign a larval habitat to all but one of our taxa, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) euiris , whose larval habitat we were unable to determine. Many comparative analyses require an ultrametric tree, such as those available from divergence time analyses.…”

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From ground pools to treeholes: convergent evolution of habitat and phenotype in Aedes mosquitoes

2017

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BackgroundInvasive mosquito species are responsible for millions of vector-borne disease cases annually. The global invasive success of Aedes mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus has relied on the human transport of immature stages in container habitats. However, despite the importance of these mosquitoes and this ecological specialization to their widespread dispersal, evolution of habitat specialization in this group has remained largely unstudied. We use comparative methods to evaluate the evolution of habitat specialization and its potential influence on larval morphology, and evaluate whether container dwelling and invasiveness are monophyletic in Aedes.ResultsWe show that habitat specialization has evolved repeatedly from ancestral ground pool usage to specialization in container habitats. Furthermore, we find that larval morphological scores are significantly associated with larval habitat when accounting for evolutionary relationships. We find that Ornstein-Uhleinbeck models with unique optima for each larval habitat type are preferred over several other models based predominantly on neutral processes, and that OU models can reliably simulate real morphological data.ConclusionsOur results demonstrate that multiple lineages of Aedes have convergently evolved a key trait associated with invasive success: the use of container habitats for immature stages. Moreover, our results demonstrate convergence in morphological characteristics as well, and suggest a role of adaptation to habitat specialization in driving phenotypic diversity in this mosquito lineage. Finally, our results highlight that the genus Aedes is not monophyletic.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12862-017-1092-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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From ground pools to treeholes: convergent evolution of habitat and phenotype in Aedes mosquitoes

2017

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“…Darsie and Ward () included 174 species in North America. However, Aedes pertinax Grabham is a newly discovered species for North America (Shroyer et al ), thus increasing the total to 175 and of those, 85 are listed in Texas.…”

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A taxonomic checklist of the mosquitoes of Harris County, Texas

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Debboun

2016

Journal of Vector Ecology

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“…Invasive mosquito species can only be correctly recognized by the knowledge base of the identifier particularly when invasive species have similar anatomical character states as native species which could be misidentified in collections outside their reported geographic range (Riles et al 2017). Educating public health officials is of the utmost importance concerning the identification of mosquito species especially with new introductions into the United States (Shroyer et al 2015, Blosser et al 2016, 2017, Reeves et al 2020, the state of Florida (Smith et al 1988, Darsie et al 2004, Smith et al 2006, Shin et al 2016, Riles et al 2017) and the migration of reported mosquito species as they move from one county to the next (Smith et al 2020, Connelly andRiles 2020).…”

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Considerations of Morphologic Observations of Mosquito Species From Identifying Complete Samples in Panama City Beach, Florida

Riles¹

2021

J FL Mosq Control Assoc

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In Panama City Beach, Florida, thirteen mosquito species have been recently registered into public health data banks over the span of 7 years [2014-2020], ten species within their published geographic range and three species outside of their noted geographic range. The underreporting is likely due to past identification practices of sub-sampling and aliquoting surveillance collections while only recording the top-most three abundant species for control application thresholds. However, these thirteen species have not been recorded in this area by public health operations up until their respective record timelines. Timelines of identification, species specific character states, the dynamic of identifying similar species and alternate identification methods are discussed. As of 2020, 10 genera and 50 species within Diptera: Culicidae are recorded in Panama City Beach, FL, U.S.A.

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Aedes pertinax, a Newly Recognized Mosquito Species in the United States

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

From ground pools to treeholes: convergent evolution of habitat and phenotype in Aedes mosquitoes

From ground pools to treeholes: convergent evolution of habitat and phenotype in Aedes mosquitoes

A taxonomic checklist of the mosquitoes of Harris County, Texas

Considerations of Morphologic Observations of Mosquito Species From Identifying Complete Samples in Panama City Beach, Florida

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