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It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela and French Guiana. C. bathana is a mosquito species with eight chromosomes. [ 1 ] The 2n=6 chromosome number is conserved in the entire family Culicidae , except in Chagasia bathana which has 2n=8.
The larvae of dobsonflies live along the rocky bottoms of streams. Chiefly active during the night , they ambush prey in the middle of riffles which supply plenty of oxygen and stir up prey. [ 12 ] They are generalist predators; dissections have revealed that they primarily eat aquatic immatures of mayflies , caddisflies , stoneflies , and ...
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Psorophora ciliata is a species of large mosquito indigenous to North America east of the continental divide. It is one of thirteen species of the genus that reside in the continental United States. [2] The mosquito has been referred to as the “gallinipper” or “shaggy-legged gallinipper” due to its tendency for aggressive behavior. [1]
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The Nematocera (the name meaning "thread-horns") are a suborder of elongated flies with thin, segmented antennae and mostly aquatic larvae.This group is paraphyletic and contains all flies except for species from suborder Brachycera [4] (the name meaning "short-horns"), which includes more commonly known species such as the housefly or the common fruit fly.
Hol Chan Cut is open to the sea beyond the reef, so allows marine creatures to travel from the outside of the reef to the inside and vice versa. Over 160 species of fish have been recorded in the reserve, along with forty types of coral, five species of sponge, two sea grasses, three species of sea turtle and three marine mammals: the short ...