Annotated List of the Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Connelly CR. 2010. Annotated List of the Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. National Park Service. University of Florida, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Vero Beach, FL
Prior to 2004, there were no published records of mosquito species from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP). As part of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), a project of Discover Life in America to document all species inside the Park boundaries, mosquitoes were collected, indentified, and reported in the ATBI database. Reeves et al. (2004) published species records of the GSMNP museum specimens and individuals collected during 1999 – 2003. The list provided here was compiled from records published by Reeves et al. (2004) and from identification of material collected by Connelly and others during mosquito surveys conducted from 2006 – 2009, and from material in the GSMNP museum. The list includes classification to genus, subgenus, and species, species author and year, notes on distribution, eggs, larvae and pupae, adults, medical importance, presence/abundance in the Park, and additional notes where appropriate. Classification follows that of the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (2010). Distribution includes that of the United States using maps published by Darsie and Ward (2005), and the zoogeographical region provided by Darsie and Ward (2005) which defines the area where the species are found outside of the North America, north of Mexico. Those defined as “indigenous” are restricted to North America, north of Mexico.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Connelly, C
- Date of Issue
- 2010-05
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, ATBI, Culicidae, Diptera, GRSM-00415, Insecta, Mosquitoes
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Freshwater Invertebrates , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Terrestrial Invertebrates