Notes on the Toxorhynchites of Mexico: redescription of Tx. moctezuma (Dyar & Knab) and new record for Tx. grandiosus (Williston) in Veracruz (Diptera: Culicidae) Author Mendez-Andrade, Alejandro Author Rivera-García, Karina D. Author Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio text Zootaxa 2019 2019-04-01 4576 1 140 150 journal article 27518 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.7 9d84ab46-129c-4631-859b-6e930cd7038a 1175-5326 2624746 2EB4A201-B992-49F6-87A7-3B5251DC810B Toxorhynchites ( Lynchiella ) grandiosus (Williston) ( Fig. 4 ) Megarrhina [ sic ] grandiosa Williston, 1900 : 224 (female). Type locality: Mexico , Guerrero , Omilteme [ sic ] = Omiltemi. Megarhina grandiosa in part of Howard et al . 1917 : 939 . Megarhinus ( Megarhinus ) grandiosus of Dyar 1928 : 407 (female diagnosis). This species has been recorded in Mexico in the states of Guerrero ( Williston 1900 ) and Tamaulipas (Ortega- Morales et al . 2015). This is the first record of Tx. grandiosus in the state of Veracruz . Material examined. Mexico , Veracruz , municipality of Xalapa , Coapexpan , 0 2 August 2001 , 1 ♀ ( 19° 31’ 28.46’’ N , 96° 56’ 38.58’’ W ) . TABLE 2 . Number of branches for the setae of the pupa of Toxorhynchites ( Lynchiella ) moctezuma . Modes in parentheses.
Seta Cephalothorax Abdominal segments
no. CT I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1–8
1 1–2(1)* 16–20+ 4–8* 3–8(8)* 2–6* 2–7* 2* 1–5(2)* GL, 1
2 1,2(2)* 1–4(3)* 1 1 1 1 1 1
3 1 1 1 1–3(1)* 7–13* 3–9* 2–5* 3–6*
4 1–3(1)* 4–9(9)* 7–13* 3–7(7)* 4–6* 4–11* 1–4(3)* 1 1
5 3–7* 4–10* 1,2(1)* 1 1 1 1 1,2(1)*
6 2–4* 1–3(2)* 1-2 1 1 1 1 3–6*
7 1–4* 3–5(3)* 2–5(2)* 2–5* 1–3(3)* 2–5(4)* 3–6(4)* 1–4(3)*
8 1 1-2 1 1 1 2–10* 1–8*
9 1,2(1)* 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
10 4–7* 1 1,2* 2,3* 2,3* 2,3* 1,2(1)* 1
11 3–6(3)* 1 1,2* 1,2* 1,2* 1,2* 1,2(1)* 1,2(1)*
12 1–3*
14 1 1
+Number of basal branches (fanlike seta with dendritic branches). *Number of terminal branches (forked seta).