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Name-bearing Type

• Leicester
• 1908:238 [pdf not available]
• Type Species: Topomyia minor

Classification

• Subfamily Culicinae, tribe Sabethini. Topomyia includes 59 species in two subgenera, Suaymyia (21 species) and Topomyia (38 species).

Distribution

• Topomyia occurs in the Oriental Region, with extensions into the southern Palaearctic (Ryukyu Archipelago) and the Australasian Region (Sulawesi and New Guinea).
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Phylogeny

• Topomyia formed a sister-group relationship with Malaya in the cladistic analyses of Judd (1996), Harbach & Kitching (1998) and Harbach & Peyton (2000). It was placed as the sister of Limatus when genus Kimia was distinguished from Topomyia and included in the data set of the last authors (Harbach et al., 2007a). The internal phylogeny of the genus has not been investigated.

Characteristics

• Topomyia are relatively small, attractive mosquitoes with a median longitudinal stripe of broad white or silver (occasionally brownish) scales on the scutum. This character, along with the absence of setae or hair-like scales on the upper calypter and termination of the anal vein before or slightly beyond the base of the mediocubital crossvein, distinguishes the adults from all other Old World genera except Kimia and Malaya. Despite the overall similarity, the unmodified proboscis of Topomyia could never be confused with the “hairy”, bent and apically swollen proboscis of Malaya. In the areas where Topomyia occur, the larvae are distinguished from all other genera based on the following characters: presence of a single pair of seta 4-X (distinction from non-sabethine genera); presence of a slit-like occipital foramen and absence of seta 13-P (distinctions from Tripteroides); presence of seta 8-M and seta 13-T removed the plate bearing setae 9-12-T (distinctions from Kimia); maxillary palpus freely attached to the maxillary body and seta 4-X branched rather than single (distinctions from Malaya). See Sabethini.

Bionomics

• [Not yet available]

Medical

• No species of Topomyia appear to be of medical or economic importance to humans.

Important References

Thurman, 1959 (Thailand) Tanaka et al., 1979 (Japan) Lee et al., 1988c (Australasian Region) Harbach et al., 2007 (morphology)

Included Taxa

Subgenus SUAYMYIA Thurman, 1959 apsaraeKlein, 1977 argenteoventralis Leicester, 1908 auriceps Brug, 1939 bambusaihole Dong, Zhou & Dong, 1997 bannaensis Gong & Lu, 1995 cristata Thurman, 1959 dulongensis Gong & Lu, 1995 houghtoni Feng, 1941 lehcharlesi Miyagi & Toma, 2008 leucotarsis Thurman, 1959 mengi Dong, Wang & Lu, 1990 nepenthicola Miyagi & Toma, 2007 papuensis Marks, 1960 pseudoauriceps Miyagi & Toma, 2010 pseudoleucotarsis Thurman, 1959 roslihashimi Miyagi & Toma, 2005 spathulirostris Edwards, 1923 spinophallus Zhou, Zhu & Lu, 1999 tumetarsalis Chen & Zhang, 1988 yanbarensis Miyagi, 1976 yanbareroides Dong & Miyagi, 1995

Subgenus TOPOMYIA Leicester, 1908 aenea Thurman, 1959 angkoris Klein, 1977 argyropalpis Leicester, 1908 aureoventer (Theobald, 1910) baolini Gong, 1989 barbus Baisas, 1946 bifurcata Dong, Wang & Lu, 1995 cabrerai Miyagi, Toma & Rivera, 1983 danaraji Ramalingam, 1988 dejesusi Baisas & Feliciano, 1953 dubitans Leicester, 1908 gracilis Leicester, 1908 hardini Miyagi, Toma & Ramalingam, 1989 hernandoi Baisas & Feliciano, 1953 hirtusa Gong, 1989 inclinata Thurman, 1959 irianensis Miyagi & Toma, 1997 javaensis Miyagi & Toma, 1995 inclinata Thurman, 1959

Subgenus TOPOMYIA cont., lindsayi Thurman, 1959 longisetosa Gong, 1994 malaysiensis Ramalingam & Banu, 1987 margina Gong & Lu, 1995 minor Leicester, 1908 nigra Leicester, 1908 pilosa Brug, 1931 pseudobarbus Baisas, 1946 rubithoracis Leicester, 1908 sabahensis Ramalingam & Ramakrishna, 1988 svastii Thurman, 1959 sylvatica Lu, Dong & Wang, 1986 tenuis Edwards, 1922 tipuliformis Leicester, 1908 trifida Edwards, 1922 unispinosa Thurman, 1959 vijayae Ramalingam, 1975 winter Dong, Wu & Mao, 2006 zhangi Gong, 1991

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