Type specimens of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Ryukyu Archipelago deposited in the National Science Museum and the Entomological Institute of Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2005

Abstract

Due to completion of taxonomical descriptions of mosquitoes in the Ryukyu Archipelago, type specimens of Topomyia yanbarensis Miyagi and 3 endemic species, Aedes daitensis Miyagi et Toma, Toxorhynchites okinawensis Miyagi, Toma et Tanaka and Ficalbia ichiromiyagii Toma et Higa, were properly deposited in the National Science Museum, Tokyo and the Entomological Institute of Hokkaido University in 2005. Deposition lists of type specimens of the 4 species are shown in this paper.