MANSONIA TITILLANS: NEW RESIDENT SPECIES OR INFREQUENT VISITOR IN CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND BEAUFORT COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA

摘要

In September, October, and November 2014, adult Mansonia titillans were collected at 4 separate sites near Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia, and I site in Muscogee County, GA, during routine mosquito surveillance. Although previously recorded from Beaufort County, SC, and several inland southern Georgia counties, recent reports of this species from coastal Georgia or South Carolina arc lacking. These newly captured Ma. titillans specimens represent the first documented records for Muscogee County and Chatham County, GA, and may indicate a recent northern expansion or reintroduction of this species along the Georgia and South Carolina coast.