Mosquitoes Eating Mosquitoes: How Toxorhynchites amboinensis, Psorophora ciliata, and Sabethes cyaneus (Diptera: Culicidae) Capture Prey

High-speed microcinematography was used to elucidate the details of prey capture by the larvae of three predatory mosquito species. The obligate predators Toxorhynchites amboinensis and Psorophora ciliata exhibited a high degree of convergence as both utilize three essential elements: 1) abdominally...

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Autores principales: Hancock, Robert G, Boyd, Taylor, MacFadden, Shannon, Sowders, Aaron, Foster, W A, Lounibos, L P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9661258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36382104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saac017

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9661258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36382104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saac017

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