AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: from plant axils (taro) (L)
Type locality: Pukamil Hamlet, Minj, Western Highlands District, Papua New Guinea
Type depository: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, United States (BBM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Lee et al. 1989a
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Papua New Guinea.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Steffan 1979: 133 (M*, F, P*, L*; as axillicolus)
Ward 1984b: 240 (emendment)
Lee et al. 1989a: 7 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H., & Russell, R.C. (1989a). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 7). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series, 2. Canberra: Australian Government.
Steffan, W.A. (1979). New Culex (Acallyntrum) from the Papuan Subregion (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 16(2), 133–139.
Ward, R.A. (1984b). Second supplement to a catalog of the mosquitoes of the World (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 16(3), 227–270.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex axillicola species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_axillicola, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
