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On the Oriental Culicid genus Leicesteria, Theobald

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

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The genus Leicesteria was founded by Theobald in 1904 (Entomologist, xxxvii, p. 211) for a species of mosquito found by Dr. G. F. Leicester in the Malay States, the most remarkable character of which was the great length of the female palpi, a condition known otherwise among the Culicidae only in Anopheles, Megarhinus and Mucidus, all genera to which the new species was obviously unrelated. Subsequently Dr. Leicester* placed on record his discovery of four other species essentially similar to Theobald's Leicesteria longipalpis; for one of these he created the new genus Chaetomyia. Additional species referable to the genus have since been described by Theobald.†

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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References

page 255 note * Studies from Inst. for Med. Research, Fed. Malay States, iii, pt. 3, pp. 94100 (1908).Google Scholar

page 255 note † Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, 1908, pp. 291294Google Scholar

page 255 note ‡ Following Dyar and Knab, the writer replaces the term “metanotum” by “postnotum,” since the structure indicated is really part of the mesothorax and not of the metathorax.