A crab-hole mosquito, Ochlerotatus baisasi, feeding on mudskipper (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
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Ochlerotatus baisasi was observed and photographed feeding on a mudskipper (Periophthalmus argentilineatus). Origin of blood meals in the stomachs of female mosquitoes collected at burrows of land crabs and mud lobsters in the mangrove forests of Oura, Okinawa, and Komi, Iriomote (the Ryukyu Islands), was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to be from a fish source.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
دوره 20 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004