The Uranotaenia are Insecte S Diptera of the family of the Culicidae , subfamily of the Culicinae . They include/understand 2 pennies kinds: the Uranotaenia and the Pseudoficalbia . They are Moustique S of small size (2 to 4 mm).

If only 283 species are described to date, they are primarily present in the intertropical areas of the world. Only one species meets in France and in the south of Europe ( Uranotaenia unguiculata Edwards). 48 species were listed on the African continent against 71 with Madagascar, among which only 4 are common to the island and the continent.

The places of development of the larvae (lodging) are very varied. Under kind Uranotaenia attends primarily running water or stagnant brooks and torrents, while the larvae of under kind Pseudoficalbia are discovered rather in the small water reserves formed by the natural containers such as sheets died on the ground, holes of tree, holes of crab, bamboos divided, armpits of sheets engainantes ( Pandanus , Typhonodoron , Taro , Ravenala ) or even in the ballot boxes of Nepenthes .

The adults have a generally night activity; very few species prick the man ( Ur . alboabdominalis , Ur . mashoannensis ) and the great majority of the species have a trophic preference for vertebrate the poikilothermes (batrachians, reptiles) or the birds.

List species of the zone afrotropicale

The country of the type is indicated thus that the known stages (M=mâle; F=femelle; N=nymphe; L=larve)

• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) albimanus Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) albinotata Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) ambodimanga Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MF
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) andreae Doucet 1961 Ivory Coast MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) year Theobald 1901 Nigeria MFL
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) antalahensis Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar FN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) apicosquamata Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) apicotaeniata Theobald 1909 Ghana MF
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) bambusicola Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar FLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) belkini Grjebine 1979 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) bicincta Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) bifasciata Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar FLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) bosseri Grjebine 1979 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) boussesi Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) breviseta Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) brumpti Doucet 1951 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) brunhesi Grjebine 1979 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) cachani Doucet 1950 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) capelai Ramos 1993 Angola MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) carcinicola Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) cavernicola Mattingly 1954 Zaire MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) combesi Doucet 1951 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) comorensis Ramos & Brunhes 2003 the Comoros MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) contrastata Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar FN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) cornuta Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar FLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) damasei Grjebine 1979 Madagascar LN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) devemyi Hamon 1954 Senegal F
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) gave Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) douceti Grjebine 1953 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) fulgens Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar FLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) fusca Theobald 1907 Sierra Leone MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) garhami Van Someren 1948 Uganda MLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) grenieri Doucet 1951 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) grjebinei Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) haddowi Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) henrardi Edwards 1934 Zaire M
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) henriquei Ramos 1993 Angola MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) hervyi Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) kraussi Grjebine 1953 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) laffosseae Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) lavieri Doucet 1950 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) legoffi Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) longitubus Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) lucyae Van Someren 1954 Guinea MF
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) lunda Ramos 1993 Angola MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) madagascarensis Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) manakaraensis Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) mashonaensis Theobald 1901 Zimbabwe MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) micromelas Edwards 1934 Sao Tome MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) Montana Ingram & De Meillon 1912 South Africa MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) musarum Edwards 1936 Uganda MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) nigricephala Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) nigripes Theobald 1905 Sierra Leone MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) will nigripleura Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) nigromaculata Edwards 1941 Ghana MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) nivipous Theobald 1912 South Africa MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) ornata Theobald 1909 Ghana MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) ototomo Ramos 1993 Cameroun M
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) will pallidipleura Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) pauliani Doucet 1949 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) pilosa Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) principensis Ramos 1993 Island Principle MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) pseudoalbimanus Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) pseudohenrardi Peters 1955 Liberia MF
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) pseudoshillitonis Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) ramosa Ramos 1993 Angola L
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) ravenalicola Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) rickenbachi Ramos 1993 Cameroun M
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) scutostriata Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) shillitonis Edwards 1932 Uganda MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) signata Ramos 1993 Angola NR
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) spinitubus Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) spinosa Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar FLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) spiraculata Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) tanzaniae Ramos 1993 Tanzania MF
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) tricolor Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) tridentata Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) tsaratananae Doucet 1950 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) ugandae Ramos 1993 Uganda M
• Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) yovani Van Someren 1951 Uganda MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) alba Theobald 1901 Zimbabwe MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) alboabdominalis Theobald 1910 Sudan MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) albocephala Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar FLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) andavakae Doucet 1950 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) angolensis Ramos 1985 Angola MF
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) anopheloides Brunhes & Razafindrasolo 1975 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) will argentipleura Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MF
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) balfouri Theobald 1904 Sudan MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) benoiti Wolfs 1964 Zaire L
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) bidentata Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) bilineata Theobald 1909 Ghana MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) caeruleocephala Theobald 1901 Nigeria MF
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) caliginosa Philip 1931 Nigeria MF
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) chorleyi Edwards 1936 Uganda MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) connali Edwards 1912 Ghana MF
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) dumonti Doucet 1949 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) fraseri Edwards 1912 Uganda MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) geniculata Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) grassei Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar FLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) hamoni Grjebine 1953 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) hebrardi Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) hopkinsi Edwards 1932 Uganda FLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) joucouri Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) lebiedi Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MF
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) machadoi Ramos 1986 Angola MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) madagascarica Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) mayeri Edwards 1912 Nigeria MFN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) mayottensis Brunhes 1977 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) moramangae Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) neireti Edwards 1920 Madagascar MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) pallidocephala Theobald 1908 Sudan MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) palmeirimi dundo Ramos 1993 Angola F
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) palmeirimi palmeirimi De Meillon & Rebelo 1941 Mozambique F
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) philonuxia Philip 1931 Nigeria MFLN
• Ur. (Uranotaenia) roberti Ramos & Brunhes 2003 Madagascar L

References

• Helena da Cunha Ramos & Jacques Brunhes (2004). Fauna of Madagascar flight n° 91. Insecta Diptera Culicidae Uranotaenia . IRD Editions, CIRAD, scientific Publications of the MNHN, 463pp.
• Helena da Cunha Ramos (1993). Revisao C género Uranotaenia (Diptera Culicidae ) Na regiao afrotropical. Tropical Instituto of investigaçao cientifica, 486 pp.
• Knight and Stone (1977). With catalog off the mosquitoes off the world.

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