José Roberto Levi-Castillo, Ecuadorian medical entomologist, historian and philatelist (Guayaquil 26 January 1921 – Quito 29 October 2006)
Discovered that varieties of an Anopheles species are geographically specific
El complejo Pseudopunctipennis en el Ecuador (Diptera, Culicidae). Univ. Guayaquil 28 September: 1-7, 1944
Developed a box for transport of mosquitoes larva and pupa used worldwide
Una caja para transportar larvas de mosquito vivas. Rev. Kubana Med. Trop. Parasitol. 10:211-2, 1947
Developed a mounting medium for pieces of mosquitoes
El uso del alcool polivinilico de viscosidad media como un medio para el montaje de las larvas, pupas y terminalia masculina de los mosquitos. Rev. Kuba Med. Trop. 5-6:76-8, 1950
Authored Los mosquitos Haemagogus de America del Sur (1951), translated into English and German
The possible role of Chara fragilis in mosquito control. Science 100:266, 1944
DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA
Subgenera
Longipalpifer 1951
Osornomyia 1955
Species
Anopheles rivadeneirai 1945
Anopheles gomezdelatorrei 1955
Culex azuayus 1954
Culex babahoyensis 1953
Culex guayasi 1953
Culex quitensis 1953
Haemagogus soperi 1955
Haemagogus garciai 1955
Limatus andinus 1954
Limatus guayasi 1954
Psophora garciai 1953
Toxorhynchites aequatorianus 1953
Trichoprosopon andinum 1953
Trichoprosopon cotopaxensis 1953
Uranotaenia aequatorianna 1953
Wyeomyia aequatoriana 1954
Wyeomyia amazonica 1954
Wyeomyia esmeraldasi 1955
Subspecies
Anopheles pseudopunctipennis levicastilloi 1944
Anopheles pseudopunctipennis rivadeneirai 1945