Lutzia

This article is about the mosquito genus. For the plant genus, see Lutzia (plant).
Not to be confused with Luzia or Lucia.

Lutzia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Culicidae
Genus:
Lutzia

Theobald, 1903

Lutzia is a genus of mosquitos. First described in 1903 by Frederick Vincent Theobald,[1] it includes species whose larval stages exhibit predatory behavior. The type species is Lutzia bigoti.[2]

  1. ^ Frederick V. Theobald. 1903. A monograph of Culicidae or mosquitoes, III. London: British Museum (Natural History). xv + 359pp.; 155; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/131700-8.Pdf Archived 2016-03-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016a. "Lutzia" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://wrbu.si.edu/generapages/lutzia.htm Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 21 Feb 2016.