Insects of Samoa and other Samaon terrestrial arthropoda. Pt. 6, Fasc. 2, Nematocera / by F.W. Edwards.
- Edwards, F. W. (Frederick Wallace), 1888-1940.
- Date:
- [1928?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Insects of Samoa and other Samaon terrestrial arthropoda. Pt. 6, Fasc. 2, Nematocera / by F.W. Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Nf^AI.\T(M'Kir\. ■17 Culex fatigans Wiedc'iiiaiitK Aiisserciir. ztccill. Ins., i, |i. |0. IS2S ; lluxtoii mid llojikiiis, licsittrcln s ni Poh/ncsin (iml Mchiiicsni, I). «''•), Id’JT. “ Tliis .s])eci('s is obviously a ixMmiit iiiti'odurtion iii our area,, and it is still found ])iincii)allv in harbour towns and foreign s(‘tthniKMits, but not in the more remote islands. . . . Fixnn Samoa the eaiia'st I’eeord is that .1. Ijloyd found C. fatigans common in A])ia, Kpolu Island, in -la.nuary and February, llH)o (Howard, Dyar and Knab). In 1!)24 and ID'io we found it common round European dwellings, but not elsewhere ; we obtained s))ccimens from each ot the three main islands, U[)ohi, Savaii, and Tutuila ’ (Buxton and Hopkins). CERATOrOGONIDAE. No records concerning the occurrence of mendjers of this laniily in Samoa have been published hitherto, except that Buxton and Hopkins in their report on researches in Polynesia mention having obtained one specimen of Culicoides : this is described below as C. inollis, sp. n. The collections of Buxton and Hopkins included eight species of this family, and in the Bishop Museum collection, which is especially rich in very small insects, are examples of eight more. Three or four of these species are extremely widely distributed ; the same may per¬ haps be true of some of the others, though in the present incomplete state of our knowledge it has been necessary to treat them as imdescribed. It is now established that many members of this family are very widely spread, especially those which live in moist humus ; the purely aquatic forms show a greater tendency to restriction in distribution and the development of local species or races. The collection of Ceratopogonidae in Australasia generally has been much neglected, but a few (including two or three AtricJiopogon and one Lasiohelea) have been obtained in Fiji by Veitch and Greenwood ; the majority of these, apart from the introduced species, are different from those of Samoa. A species of Fompomyia (different from those recorded here) was found by Miss Cheesman in Tahiti. None of the Samoan species were observed to suck blood, but it will pro¬ bably be found that the species of Culicoides and Lasiohelea are bloodsuckers, like the other members of these genera. O](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29809071_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
