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Mosquitoes of the World by Richard C. Wilkerson (Manager, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research)

The definitive reference on the biology, evolution, ecology, and diversity of all known species of the world's mosquitoes. Critical for entomologists, public health professionals, and epidemiologists across the world.

Biting multiple times on two, three, or more different hosts, it is no surprise that some species of mosquitoes have co-evolved with pathogens. For humans and other animals, the result has been some of the most challenging diseases known. It has been said that Anopheles gambiae, as the primary transmitter of malaria parasites to humans, is the most dangerous animal in the world. Certainly malaria has killed more people than all the wars that ever took place. Even now, despite drugs and mosquito control, malaria claims the lives of 405,000 per year. The vast majority of mosquito species are not involved in pathogen transmission to humans, but those that are make a huge impact on global health.

In this two-volume set, three of the world's leading experts on mosquito disease, ecology, and systematics offer readers unique insights into the fascinating world of mosquitoes while illustrating their diagnostic morphological features in detail. Comprehensively addressing the natural diversity of mosquitoes, the book explains their life histories, bionomic traits, and the physiological and physical adaptations they evolved in response to ever-changing environmental conditions. Mosquitoes are one of the best-known groups of insects, making this book a great starting place for anyone who would like to understand entomology by knowing the details about a representative family.

Volume One contains a review of the biology and diversity of mosquitoes. Biology is treated in the following chapters:

* Evolution
* Nomenclature
* Distribution
* Development
* Dormancy
* Mosquito Movement
* Feeding and Nutrition
* Excretion
* Copulation and Insemination
* Egg Development and Oviposition

The chapters on biology are followed by a well-illustrated summary of the characteristics of all 41 genera and of representative species of mosquitoes. This treatment of the morphological diversity of mosquitoes is accompanied by a glossary of all morphological terms used.

Volume Two features

* a long-awaited comprehensive mosquito taxonomic catalog detailing the current taxonomic and systematic status of all 3,698 valid species and subspecies, 41 genera, and 187 subgenera
* a list of all taxa for definitive use of nomenclature
* complete lists of species synonyms, distributions, key taxonomic works, and newly defined informal names
* origins of scientific names

Readers will discover that some mosquitoes undertake courtship rituals, while others guard their eggs, feed solely on earthworms, or can survive as immatures under ice sheets or in salt-encrusted pools. Hundreds of drawings and high-resolution, close-up images illustrate the text. The most complete reference work on mosquitoes ever produced, Mosquitoes of the World is an unmatched resource for entomologists, public health professionals, epidemiologists, and reference libraries.

Mosquitoes of the World Reviews

This monumental pair of volumes, boldly entitled Mosquitoes of the World, cover almost everything known about mosquitoes plus what they mean to science and humanity. The narrative text is lucid, replete with precious inferences supported by >6000 references.
-Royal Entomological Society
It is the magnum opus on all things mosquito.
-Nature - Cool Green Science

About Richard C. Wilkerson (Manager, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research)

Daniel Strickman is a consultant for the Innovative Vector Control Consortium, recently retired from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a coauthor of Prevention of Bug Bites, Stings, and Disease and a coeditor of two editions of Insect Repellents Handbook. Richard C. Wilkerson is a research associate in the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Yvonne-Marie Linton is the research director of the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit for the United States Army and curator for the Entomology Department of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, where she is responsible for the US National Mosquito Collection.

Table of Contents

Volume 1
Preface
PART ONE. Biology of Mosquitoes
1. Evolution
2. Nomenclature, Classification, and Identification
3. Distribution
4. Development
5. Dormancy
6. Mosquito Movement
7. Feeding and Nutrition
8. Excretion
9. Copulation and Insemination
10. Egg Development and Oviposition
PART TWO. Mosquito Diversity, Systematics, and Medical Importance
11. Genera and Medically Important Species Pages
12. Glossary of Diagnostic Morphological Terms
Volume 2
PART THREE. Taxonomic Catalog of Culicidae
Introduction
Abbreviations Used for Type Depositories
General Publications, Family Culicidae
Taxonomic Catalog
Fossil Culicidae
Nomina Dubia
Nomina Nuda and Rejected Names
Family
Group and Other Suprageneric
Names
Informal Species Groups
Literature Cited
Index

Additional information

NGR9781421438146
9781421438146
1421438143
Mosquitoes of the World by Richard C. Wilkerson (Manager, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research)
New
Hardback
Johns Hopkins University Press
2021-03-16
1332
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