Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore.
School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
J Med Entomol. 2019 Jan 8;56(1):103-119. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjy154.
Prior to 1965, Singapore was part of the Malaya (now Malaysia) and was usually not mentioned when mosquito records were reported for Malaya. Consequently, many species that occurred in Singapore were not listed in the world mosquito catalog, and the available checklist for Singapore since 1986 is incomplete, with some imprecise species information. In updating this checklist, we examined and verified mosquito specimens collected from Singapore in various depositories, including a thorough review of past taxonomic literature. Here, we report a checklist of 182 mosquito species, 33 new distribution records, and a consolidated status list of vectors for Singapore. As Singapore is a travel hub and hosts one of the busiest container ports in the world, there is a risk of introducing mosquito species and their associated pathogens of human disease to the country. Hence, the distribution records are important to increase our knowledge on mosquito ecology as well as to understand the risk of newly introduced vectors and their associated pathogens.
在 1965 年之前，新加坡是马来亚（现马来西亚）的一部分，在报告马来亚的蚊子记录时通常不会提到新加坡。因此，许多在新加坡出现的物种并未列入世界蚊子目录，自 1986 年以来新加坡的可用清单不完整，有些物种信息不精确。在更新这份清单时，我们检查和核实了从新加坡各收藏处收集的蚊子标本，包括对过去分类学文献的彻底审查。在这里，我们报告了 182 种蚊子物种的清单，33 种新的分布记录，以及新加坡病媒的综合状况清单。由于新加坡是一个旅游枢纽，拥有世界上最繁忙的集装箱港口之一，因此存在将蚊子物种及其相关的人类疾病病原体引入该国的风险。因此，这些分布记录对于增加我们对蚊子生态学的了解以及理解新引入的病媒及其相关病原体的风险非常重要。
