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Tripteroides
Sign in to saveTripteroides is a genus of mosquitoes belonging to the family Culicidae. It is a large and complex assemblage of 122 species and 5 subgenera. Species are distributed from India to Japan, and south to Australia including the islands of southeast Asia and the South Pacific. The species comprising the genus are highly diverse, and the relationships among Tripteroides and Trichoproposon species remain unresolved as many characters overlap. The taxonomic status of this genus urgently needs revision to better understand the relationships among the species and to improve the classification of the gen
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 238
- With media
- 30
- Family
- Culicidae
- Collections
- CASC
- Recorded in
- Indonesia
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- Tripteroides
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Species
- Subgenus (''Tripteroides'')
- Subgenus (''Polylepidomyia'')
- Subgenus (''Rachionotomyia'')
- Subgenus (''Rachisoura'')
- Subgenus (''Tricholeptomyia'')
- References
Tripteroides is a genus of mosquitoes belonging to the family Culicidae. It is a large and complex assemblage of 122 species and 5 subgenera. Species are distributed from India to Japan, and south to Australia including the islands of southeast Asia and the South Pacific. The species comprising the genus are highly diverse, and the relationships among Tripteroides and Trichoproposon species remain unresolved as many characters overlap. The taxonomic status of this genus urgently needs revision to better understand the relationships among the species and to improve the classification of the genus.
==Species==
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