A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS <i>AÉDES</i> FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA

Service, M. W.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1959.tb00132.x

“…During a mosquito larval survey in this area, Wendy collected some larvae that on rearing to adults were found to be a new species, which I named Ae. wendyae (19). The name is particularly appropriate because taxonomically, one of its nearest species is Ae.…”

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This article describes the childhood of Mike Service, his very early interest in insects, his time at Imperial College, London University, and his career in Nigeria studying the taxonomy and biology of anopheline malaria vectors. On his return to England he became increasingly interested in the ecology and population dynamics of hematophagous insects. After almost eight years undertaking only research, he joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, where he was involved in lecturing as well as research and engaged in frequent overseas travel mainly to Africa, Central and South America, and Asia. On retirement he retains an active interest in medical entomology. Although he undertook a considerable amount of taxonomic work on mosquitoes, he believes his most important, and possibly influential, work was introducing ecological methods that were used by agricultural scientists to the study of mosquitoes. For example, the construction of life tables, calculating the percentage mortality of pre-adult mosquitoes, and the identification of predators by serological methods.

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“…Ae&s (A2diwwrphus) wendyae Service, 1959 As no type of this species was designated in the original description (Service, in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.…”

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A NEW SPECIES AND VARIETY OF ANOPHELES FROM NIGERIA, WITH NOTES ON ANOPHELES FLAVICOSTA EDWARDS AND AËDES (AË.) WENDYAE SERVICE

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“…During a mosquito larval survey in this area, Wendy collected some larvae that on rearing to adults were found to be a new species, which I named Ae. wendyae (19 …”

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The Making of a Medical Entomologist

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This article describes the childhood of Mike Service, his very early interest in insects, his time at Imperial College, London University, and his career in Nigeria studying the taxonomy and biology of anopheline malaria vectors. On his return to England he became increasingly interested in the ecology and population dynamics of hematophagous insects. After almost eight years undertaking only research, he joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, where he was involved in lecturing as well as research and engaged in frequent overseas travel mainly to Africa, Central and South America, and Asia. On retirement he retains an active interest in medical entomology. Although he undertook a considerable amount of taxonomic work on mosquitoes, he believes his most important, and possibly influential, work was introducing ecological methods that were used by agricultural scientists to the study of mosquitoes. For example, the construction of life tables, calculating the percentage mortality of pre-adult mosquitoes, and the identification of predators by serological methods. By the age of seven, I became interested in natural history and spent most of my pocket money buying books on biology, and later on Lepidoptera and other insects. At the age of nine I often took a bus to Charing Cross in London to go to Watkins and Doncaster, a very famous entomological supplier of pinned insects and entomological collecting equipment. I still use a mahogany pin box I bought in 1942. I also purchased cardboard boxes lined with strips of cork to which exotic insects were pinned. Sadly, the boxes soon became infested with mites and beetle larvae that slowly devoured my purchases. At around this time I bought eggs and chrysalids of moths and butterflies from L. Hugh Newman's Butterfly Farm in Bexley, Kent, and reared adults. I was in good company, as Winston Churchill also bought butterflies from the farm. I caught moths in a homemade light trap in my garden and tried sugaring trees to collect moths, but with little success. BIRTH OF AN ENTOMOLOGISTOn my fifteenth birthday my father bought me a microscope, which I still have, and I spent many happy hours collecting pond water and identifying species of Coleps, Paramecium, Rotifer, Volvox, Vorticella, and many other microorganisms.My mother and father were musical; both played a grand piano we had at home. Despite many frustrated attempts I never succeeded in playing the piano, and in exasperation my father concluded I must be tone deaf. My hobbies were initially cycling and boxing. I sometimes cycled the 139 km from South Norwood to Brighton and back in a day, but I was never very good at boxing, although I still retain an interest in the sport. However, I was more successful at ice skating and joined the ice skating club at Streatham ice rink, where I was taught ice dancing and figure skating. Once, getting a little too cocky, I attempted a Salcow jump at speed, crashed on the ice, suffered a concussion, and chipped some molars! I still skate, but no jumps or dancing; ho...

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A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS AÉDES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA

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