Psorophora ferox (mosquito)

Abundance: 0.01 to 59.02% (median 0.84%)

Latitudinal range: -34.6° to 36.1°

Habitats: mangrove (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (2), temperate coniferous forest (1), temperate savanna (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (9), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (15), tropical/subtropical savanna (3)

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Found in 32 samples

Argentina: Buenos Aires City, Vicente López and Tigre Municipalities, Resistencia, Monte Alto, Kilometer 1031

Brazil: Floresta Estadual do Palmito, Duque de Caxias, Anhanguera Park (adults), Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve (Site A, CDC trap), Brasilia National Park (ground), Brasilia National Park (canopy), Agronomy Center for the Vale do Ribeira (CDC-LT), Reserva Natural do Morro da Mina, Barcelos, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Ecological Station of Samuel (October 1990), Cananéia (trap A), Peixe, Paranã, São Salvador do Tocantins, Campus Professor Edgard Santos da Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia, Costa Marques (outside house 1)

Colombia: Villavicencio, La Batea (CH)

Guatemala: Puerto Barrios (mosquitoes)

Panama: Madden Dam (light trap), Madden Dam (horse-baited trap)

Peru: Iquitos (sylvan sites), Iquitos (urban sites)

United States: Big Slough, Payne and Logan Counties

Venezuela: Alto Orinoco

See also Psorophora, Psorophora albigenu, Psorophora albigenu/varipes, Psorophora albipes, Psorophora amazonica, Psorophora champerico, Psorophora ciliata, Psorophora cilipes, Psorophora cingulata, Psorophora circumflava, Psorophora columbiae, Psorophora confinnis, Psorophora cyanescens, Psorophora dimidiata, Psorophora discolor, Psorophora discrucians, Psorophora horridus, Psorophora howardii, Psorophora johnstonii, Psorophora lanei, Psorophora lineata, Psorophora longipalpus, Psorophora lutzii, Psorophora lutzzi, Psorophora mathesoni, Psorophora pallescens, Psorophora paulli, Psorophora saeva, Psorophora signipennis, Psorophora sp., Psorophora spp., Psorophora varinervis, Psorophora varipes