Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-vdxz6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-26T01:40:36.965Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

On the Occurrence of Stegomyia fasciata in a Hole in a Beech Tree in Epping Forest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

M. E. MacGregor
Affiliation:
Officer in charge of the Entomological Laboratory, Sandwich, Kent

Extract

For the last few months I have been using a beech tree-hole in Epping Forest as a source of supply of Anopheles plumbeus; and it has been our custom to collect larvae from the hole and transfer them to the laboratory at Sandwich, where the development is continued under artificial conditions. In this way we have been able to obtain large numbers of Anopheles plumbeus and Ochlerotatus geniculatus, together with the recently discovered Orthopodomyia albionensis as an associate. Not long after finding the Orthopodomyia, I was surprised to find yet another species from the same tree-hole, two male Stegomyia fasciata, emerging from the tank containing the mixed larvae from Epping Forest. The speciemens were of normal size, and we now have them preserved in our collection here.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1919

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

* Journal of Royal Army Medical Corps, Nov., 1919.