Aedes (Ochlerotatus) tortilis (Theobald, 1903)

Cooper, David, Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki, Macdonald, David, Nanova, Olga, Yudin, Viktor, Dugmore, Andrew & Kitchener, Andrew, 2020, Taxonomy, ecology and distribution of the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Dutch Leeward Islands, with a key to the adults and fourth instar larvae, Contributions to Zoology 89 (1), pp. 373-392 : 381

Aedes (Ochlerotatus) tortilis (Theobald, 1903)

Aedes tortilis has never been recorded on any of the Dutch Leeward Islands, but occurs throughout the Lesser Antilles (Arnell, 1976) and is present on the neighboring Virgin Islands ( Dyar, 1922) and Saint Kitts ( Mohammed et al., 2015). Therefore, it is likely that this species is present, on one of the Dutch islands and it is therefore included in the adult and larval identification keys. The larval habitats generally occur in temporary or semipermanent fresh to brackish groundwater pools(Arnell, 1976), conditions that are omnipresent on Sint Maarten.