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Published on: August 31, 2022
A NEW PHYTOTELM PLANT, CRINUM MOOREI (ASPARAGALES: AMARYLLIDACEAE), FOR THE AMERICAS AND ITS MOSQUITO INHABITANT
Juan-Carlos Navarro1,2,3, Sandra Enriquez3, Franklin Vaca3
1Programa Prometeo-Senescyt, Quito, Ecuador.
Abstract:
A new phytotelm plant for the Americas is recorded for San Miguel de los Bancos, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. In the leaf axils of Crinum moorei Hook. f. (Amaryllidaceae) were collected larvae and pupae of a common mosquito, Wyeomyia (Dendromyia) complosa (Dyar) (Diptera: Culicidae: Sabethini). This plant is a South African native, introduced into several countries, but never reported as a habitat for immature mosquitoes. We provide notes about its botanical and ecological characteristics, and also of the mosquito associated at this locality.

