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Cattail Mosquito (suggested common name) Coquillettidia perturbans (Walker) (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae: Culicinae: Mansoniini)
Lethia R. Johnson, James P. Cuda, and Nathan Burkett-Cadena
Release Date: 5/28/2025
Agriculture
Abstract
About this Publication
This document is EENY-694, one of a series of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date November 2017. Revised September 2021 and November 2024. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.
About the Authors
Lethia R. Johnson, Department of Biology; James P. Cuda, professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology; and Nathan Burkett-Cadena, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
Authors
former assistant professor, genetics and breeding of tropical fruits, Horticultural Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center, Homestead FL
associate professor and Extension specialist, fruit crops, UF/IFAS Department of Horticultural Sciences, Gainesville, FL
professor emeritus, Department of Entomology and Nematology
associate professor, mosquito ecology and biology of disease hosts, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Vero Beach, FL
professor emeritus, tropical fruit crop specialist, Department of Horticultural Sciences, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center, Homestead, FL
Extension agent II, Ph.D., fruit/field crops, UF/IFAS Extension St. Lucie County, Ft. Pierce, FL
Extension agent II, M.S., sustainable agriculture/food systems, UF/IFAS Extension Marion County, Ocala, FL
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