''Lutzia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

mosquito Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a Family (biology), family of small Diptera, flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word ''mosquito'' (formed by ''Musca (fly), mosca'' and diminutive ''-ito'') is Spanish and Portuguese for ''little fly''. Mos ...

s. First described in 1903 by

Frederick Vincent Theobald Frederick Vincent Theobald FES (15 May 1868 – 6 March 1930) was an English entomologist and "distinguished authority on mosquitoes". During his career, he was responsible for the economic zoology section of the Natural History ...

,Frederick V. Theobald. 1903. ''A monograph of Culicidae or mosquitoes'', III. London: British Museum (Natural History). xv + 359pp.; 155; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/131700-8.Pdf . it includes

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

whose

larval A larva (; : larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage. Animals with indirect development such as insects, some arachnids, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase ...

stages exhibit

predatory behavior Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill ...

. The

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

is '' Lutzia bigoti''.Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016a. "Lutzia" in ''Systematic Catalog of Culicidae'',

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit ("WRBU") is a US Army organization that conducts laboratory and field research on the systematics of medically important arthropods in support of epidemiological investigations and disease prevention and control ...

, http://wrbu.si.edu/generapages/lutzia.htm , accessed 21 Feb 2016.

Bionomics

The genus includes two species with

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeogra ...

distribution, four in

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

and

Australasia Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia), and sometimes including New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia). The term is used in a number of different context ...

, one

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...

, and one occurring in the

Ogasawara Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , is a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around SSE of Tokyo and northwest of Guam. The group as a whole has a total area of but only two of the islands are permanen ...

of Japan. Laboratory experiments on predation by ''Lutzia'' (''Metalutzia'') ''fuscana'' under arid conditions showed that it preyed primarily on ''Aedes aegypti'' larvae, and to lesser extents on ''Anopheles stephensi'' and ''Culex quinquefasciatus'' larvae, with an average daily consumption of 18-19 larvae/day, suggesting that under the proper conditions they could be useful in reducing domestic mosquito breeding in desert environments where, due to limited water sources, mosquito vectors must share the available breeding habitat.

Subgenera and species

Subgenera In biology, a subgenus ( subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus. In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the ge ...

and

listed by the

:Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016b. "Genus Lutzia Theobald" in ''Systematic Catalog of Culicidae'',

, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=38, accessed 21 Feb 2016. *Subgenus '' Insulalutzia'' Tanaka **'' Lutzia shinonagai'' (Tanaka, Mizusawa and Saugstad) *Subgenus '' Lutzia'' Theobald **'' Lutzia allostigma''

Howard Howard is a masculine given name derived from the English surname Howard. ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names'' notes that "the use of this surname as a christian name is quite recent and there seems to be no particular reason for ...

, Dyar and Knab **'' Lutzia bigoti'' (Bellardi) ( syn. '' L. brasiliae'' Dyar, and '' L. patersoni'' Shannon and Del Ponte) *Subgenus '' Metalutzia'' Tanaka **''

Lutzia agranensis ''Lutzia'' is a genus of mosquitos. First described in 1903 by Frederick Vincent Theobald,Frederick V. Theobald. 1903. ''A monograph of Culicidae or mosquitoes'', III. London: British Museum (Natural History). xv + 359pp.; 155; http://www.mosqu ...

'' Singh and Prakash **''

Lutzia chiangmaiensis ''Lutzia'' is a genus of mosquitos. First described in 1903 by Frederick Vincent Theobald,Frederick V. Theobald. 1903. ''A monograph of Culicidae or mosquitoes'', III. London: British Museum (Natural History). xv + 359pp.; 155; http://www.mosqu ...

'' Somboon and Harbach, 2019Pradya Somboon and Ralph E Harbach. 2019. ''Lutzia'' (''Metalutzia'') ''chiangmaiensis'' n. sp. (Diptera: Culicidae), Formal Name for the Chiang Mai (CM) Form of the Genus ''Lutzia'' in Thailand. ''

Journal of Medical Entomology The ''Journal of Medical Entomology'' is a peer-reviewed bimonthly scientific journal published by Oxford University Press for the Entomological Society of America. The journal publishes reports on all aspects of medical entomology and medical ac ...

'', tjz072, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjz072, published 30 May 2019. **'' Lutzia fuscana'' (Wiedemann) ( syn. '' L. concolor'' Robineau-Desvoidy, '' L. luridus'' Doleschall, and '' L. setulosus'' Doleschall) **'' Lutzia halifaxii'' (Theobald) ( syn. '' L. aureopunctis''

Ludlow Ludlow ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is located south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford, on the A49 road (Great Britain), A49 road which bypasses the town. The town is near the conf ...

, '' L. multimaculosus'' Leicester, and '' L. raptor'' Edwards) **'' Lutzia tigripes'' (de Grandpre & de Charmoy) ( syn. '' L. bimaculata'' Theobald, '' L. fusca'' Theobald, '' L. maculicrures'' Theobald, '' L. mombasaensis'' Theobald, and '' L. sierraleonis'' Theobald) **'' Lutzia vorax'' Edwards

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3267992 Culicinae Mosquito genera Taxa named by Frederick Vincent Theobald