''Lutzia shinonagai'' was first described in 1979.Kazuo Tanaka, Kiyoyuki Mizusawa and Edward S. Saugstad. 1979. A Revision of the Adult and Larval Mosquitoes of Japan (Including the Ryukyu Archipelago and the Ogasawara Islands) and Korea (Diptera: Culicidae). ''Contributions of the American Entomological Institute'', 16: 245-247; . The

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

name was originally spelled ''Lützia'';Frederick V. Theobald. 1903. ''A monograph of Culicidae or Mosquitoes''. London: British Museum (Natural History). III: xv + 359 pp.Kazuo Tanaka. 2003. Studies on the Pupal Mosquitoes of Japan (9) Genus ''Lutzia'', with Establishment of Two New Subgenera, ''Metalutzia'' and ''Insulalutzia'' (Diptera, Culicidae) ''Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology'', 9(2): 159-169; http://ww.w.sandflycatalog.org/files/pdfs/129800-4.pdf. the species name honors medical entomologist Dr. Satoshi Shinonaga who has published extensively on the taxonomy of the muscid, sarcophagid and calliphorid flies of Japan and the Oriental Region. ''Lutzia shinonagai'' is the only species in the subgenus ''Insulalutzia''.

Bionomics

Collected on

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, ''Lutzia shinonagai'' is one of four

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of mosquitoes enzootic to the

Ogasawara Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...

of Japan.Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Lutzia » Insulalutzia » shinonagai (Tanaka, Mizusawa and Saugstad)" in ''Systematic Catalog of Culicidae'',

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, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=18382. Larvae have been collected from a tree hole.

References

Culicinae Insects described in 1979 {{Culicidae-stub