A Brief Note on The Flies and Mosquitoes of Santubong National Park, Kuching (Diptera: Culicidae, Calliphoridae and Muscidae).

THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL
VOL LXXV NO.96 DECEMBER 2015

Title :
A Brief Note on The Flies and Mosquitoes of Santubong National Park, Kuching (Diptera: Culicidae, Calliphoridae and Muscidae).

Author :
Wong Siew Fui and Leh Moi Ung

Abstract:

A collection of flies and mosquitoes were made at four different locations at different altitudes along the trail from the base to the summit of Gunung Santubong in Santubong National Park, Sarawak in November 2013. A total of 2,494 specimens of nine species of flies were collected comprising of families Calliphoridae and Muscidae. The species composition were Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794) 53.3%; Chrysomya chani Kurahashi, 1979, 11.9%; Chrysomya defixa (Walker, 1856) 8.4%; Ophyra spinigera Stein, 1910, 6.8%; Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart, 1843) 5.7%; Ceylonomyia nigripes (Aubertin, 1932) 5.5%; Chrysomya villeneuvi (Patton, 1922) 4.8%; Ophyra chalcogaster (Weidemann, 1824) 3.2%; and, Hypopygiopsis violacea (Macquart, 1835) 0.4%. of the flies, C. megacephala (Fabricius,1794) is the most abundant species collected at different altitudes. Few mosquitoes of the family Culicidae were collected from tree holes along the trail. They consisted of four species namely Aedes albolineatus, Anopheles sp., Uranotenia sp. and Tripteroides sp.

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2015-4TRE-08

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Wong S. F. and Leh M. U. (2015). A Brief Note on The Flies and Mosquitoes of Santubong National Park, Kuching (Diptera: Culicidae, Calliphoridae and Muscidae). The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXXV (96) : 259-266

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