Premium
Biochemical key to eight species of adult Egyptian mosquitoes
Author(s) -
FARID HODA A.,
GAD ADEL M.,
SALEM AHMED M.,
KASHEF AHMED H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
medical and veterinary entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2915
pISSN - 0269-283X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1991.tb00540.x
Subject(s) - biology , culex pipiens , zoology , culex , key (lock) , aedes , theobald , anopheles , ecology , larva , malaria , immunology
.1 An electrophoretic key is described, based on enzyme relative mobility, to distinguish eight species of Egyptian mosquito adults. 2 Using horizontal starch gel electrophoresis, five different enzyme assays unambiguously separated Culex pipiens L., Cx antennatus (Becker), Cx pusillus Macquart, Aedes caspius (Pallas), Culiseta longiareolata (Macquart), Uranotaenia ungukulata Edwards, Anopheles multicolor Cambouliu and An.pharoensis Theobald. 3 Diagnostic loci between species were: Ak‐2, G6pcL a‐Gpd, Gpi and 6‐Pgd; the probability of correct diagnosis in each case was at least 0.989.