Mosquitoes of the southeastern United States / Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkett-Cadena, Nathan D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insects--Southern States--Identification.

Insects.

Mosquitoes--Southern States--Identification.

Mosquitoes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States is a full-color, highly illustrated guide to the sixty-four known species of mosquitoes in eleven genera that populate the South--from the Gulf Coastal states to the Carolinas. In addition to detailed and fully illustrated identification keys for both larvae and adults, Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States includes information on the mosquito's lifecycle, interaction with humans, and biological diversity in the southeast. This area of the country has a rich mosquito fauna with diverse sp

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. An Illustrated Key for Identifying the Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States; Key to Genera of Adult Female Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States; Key to Genera of Fourth-Instar Mosquito Larvae of the Southeastern United States; Part Two. Species Accounts; Aedes; Anopheles; Coquillettidia; Culex; Culiseta; Mansonia; Orthopodomyia; Psorophora; Toxorhynchites; Uranotaenia; Wyeomyia; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8648-3

OCLC:

862077679