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Eretmapodites
| Eretmapodites | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Tribe: | Aedini |
| Genus: | Eretmapodites Theobald, 1901 |
The Afrotropical mosquito genus Eretmapodites contains species that exhibit facultative cannibalism in their larval developmental stages.[1][2] The species was first described in 1901 by Frederick Vincent Theobald.[3] The type species is Eretmapodites quinquevittatus Theobald [1][3]
- ^ a b Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Genus Eretmapodites Theobald" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.wrbu.org/generapages/eretmapodites.htm, accessed 21 Feb 2016.
- ^ G. H. E. Hopkins. Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region I.-Larval Bionomics of Mosquitoes and Taxonomy of Culicine Larvae, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), accessed 21 Feb 2016. - ^ a b Theobald, F.V. 1901. Notes on a Collection of Mosquitoes from West Africa, and Descriptions of New Species. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine─Memoir IV, Appendix, p. ii; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/131700-5.pdf Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine.
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