“Os Mosq. no Para,” 1905, p. 114, Goeldi; “Mono. Culicid.,” 1910, v, p. 433, Theobald.
Bright yellow or yellow and purple mosquitoes, with rather dense wing scales. Numerous species occur in Africa (aurites, annettii, fuscopennatus, etc.), others in India, Australia and South America.
Low found filariæ in the thoracic muscles of fuscopennatus in Uganda.
Several of the Ædeomyina bite, especially the small Uranotænias. They are all sylvan species, seldom entering houses. They need not, therefore, be referred to here.
For full details of the Culicid genera and species the reader is referred to my monograph[393] and other works mentioned below.
Other Nematocera.
Other nematocerous flies are midges, daddy-long-legs and sand-flies. The ones which cause annoyance to man besides Culicidæ are the following:—
Sand-flies (Simulidæ), certain midges (Chironomidæ), and a few owl midges (Psychodidæ).
The Nematocera have long thread-like jointed antennæ and their pupæ are, as a rule, naked; the larvæ have a distinct head and can thus be told from the next section (Brachycera).
Family. Simulidæ.