Toxorhynchites rajah

Taxobox
name = "Toxorhynchites rajah"


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image_caption = "Toxorhynchites rajah" from type description
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
familia = Culicidae
genus = "Toxorhynchites"
subgenus = "Toxorhynchites"
species = "T. rajah"
binomial = "Toxorhynchites rajah"
binomial_authority = Tsukamoto, 1986

"Toxorhynchites rajah" is a species of mosquito in the genus "Toxorhynchites". It is endemic to Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. In its larval stage, "T. rajah" is found exclusively in the pitchers of "Nepenthes rajah" (hence the name), a species of pitcher plant. As such, it is considered a nepenthebiont.

References

* [http://www.wrbu.org/REF1/133700-0.pdf Two New Mosquito Species from a Pitcher Plant of Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia]
* Clarke, C.M. 1997. "Nepenthes of Borneo". Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, p. 39.