This genus is found in Africa, India, Europe and in Australia. Three species are proved malaria bearers, namely, P. costalis, Loew, P. chaudoyei, Theob., and P. superpictus, Grassi. Members of this genus can be told by having narrow curved thoracic scales, hairy abdomen, and much-spotted wings.
Genus. Myzorhynchella, Theobald.
“Mono. Culicid.,” 1907, iv, p. 78.
In this genus the thorax has distinct, narrow curved scales, and the abdomen is hairy, the wing scales broad and lanceolate, and the head with broad scales not closely appressed, but not forked or fimbriated.
Five species are known: lutzi, Cruz; parva, Chagas; nigritarsis, Chagas; tibiomaculata, Neiva; gilesi, Neiva; and nigra, Theobald. They are all recorded from Brazil, and nigra also from Mexico.
Genus. Manguinhosia, Cruz, in Peryassu.
“Os Culicideos do Brazil,” 1908, p. 112.
A single marked species from the Brazils. The thorax has piliform curved scales, and some narrow curved and flattened ones on the sides. Abdomen pilose, except the last three segments which are scaled. No tufts of scales on posterior femora.
Allied to Lophoscelomyia, but at once told by the absence of scale tufts on the hind femora. M. lutzi, Cruz, Brazil.