Tripteroides sp. No. 2

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Tripteroides sp. No. 2
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Family: Culicidae Genus: Tripteroides Subgenus: Rachionotomyia Species: T. sp. No. 2
Binomial name
Tripteroides sp. No. 2 (Mattingly, 1981)

Tripteroides sp. No. 2 is a species of mosquito in the genus Tripteroides which has not yet been formally named. It is endemic to Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. T. sp. No. 2 is placed in the subgenus Rachionotomyia. In its larval stage, T. sp. No. 2 develops in the pitchers of Nepenthes species, especially N. rajah. As such, it is considered a nepenthebiont.

[edit] References

• Masuhisa Tsukamoto (1989). Two new mosquito species from a pitcher plant of Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Japan. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 17 (3): 215-228. 
• Clarke, C.M. 1997. Nepenthes of Borneo. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, p. 39.