PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: n.s. [tiny (L.)]
Type locality: Egypt
Type depository: Bigot Collection, in collection of J.E. Collin, Newmarket, United Kingdom [now in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK (?)]
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Becker et al. 2010: 267
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Afghanistan, Algeria, Dubai, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel (and Gaza Strip and West Bank), Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and South Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Macquart, 1850: 313 (F)
Séguy 1924: Pl. XIV(L*), Pl. XIII (M genitalia*)
Stackelberg 1937: 221 (M*)
Senevet 1947a: 107 (L*)
Senevet 1949: 50 (M*)
Monchadskii 1951: 246 (L*)
Sicart 1954: 28 (P)
Mattingly & Knight 1956: 109 (F), 113 (L) (distribution; Saudi Arabia)
Senevet & Andarelli 1959: 85 (M*, F, P*, L*)
Gutsevich et al. 1974: 353 (M*, F, L*)
Margalit & Tahori 1974: 86 (distribution)
Harbach 1998: 14 (distribution; United Arab Emirates)
Al-Houty 1997 (distribution; Kuwait, as pisullus [sic])
Rueda, Pecor et al. 2008 (distribution)
Becker et al. 2010: 267 (M*, F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, distribution, bionomics)
Ahmed et al. 2011 (distribution; Saudi Arabia)
Gunay et al. 2015 (molecular taxonomy, distribution; Turkey)
Robert et al. 2019 (distribution; Western Palearctic)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Ahmed, A.M., Shaalan, E.A., Aboul-Soud, M.A.M., Tripet, F., & Al-Khedhairy, A.A. (2011). Mosquito vectors survey in the Al-Ahsaa district of eastern Saudi Arabia. Journal of Insect Science, 11, 176.
Al-Houty, W. (1997). Checklist of the insect fauna of Kuwait. Kuwait Journal of Science and Engineering, 24(1), 145–162.
Becker, N., Petrić, D., Zgomba, M., Boase, C., Madon, M., Dahl, C., & Kaiser, A. (2010). Mosquitoes and their control (2nd ed.). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
Gunay, F., Alten, B., Simsek F., Aldemir, A. & Linton, Y.-M. (2015). Barcoding Turkish Culex mosquitoes to facilitate arbovirus vector incrimination studies reveals hidden diversity and new potential vectors. Acta Tropica, 143, 112-20.
Gutsevich, A.V., Monchadskii, A.S., & Shtakel’berg, A.A. (1974). Mosquitoes, Family Culicidae. In Fauna of the USSR. Diptera. New series No. 100, 3(4). Jerusalem, Israel: Keter Publishing House. (Original work published 1971).
Harbach, R.E. (1988). Mosquitoes of the subgenus Culex in southwestern Asia and Egypt (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 24(1), 1–240.
Macquart, J. (1850). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e Supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l’Agriculture et des Arts de Lille Année, 1849, 309–479.
Margalit, J., & Tahori, A.S. (1974). An annotated list of mosquitoes in Israel. Israel Journal of Entomology, 9, 77–91.
Mattingly, P.F., & Knight, K.L. (1956). The mosquitoes of Arabia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 43(3), 91–141.
Monchadskii, A.S.M. (1951). The larvae of bloodsucking mosquitoes of the USSR and adjoining countries (Subfam. Culicinae). Tableaux analytiques de la faune de l’URSS (Musée Zoologique de l’Académie des Sciences), 37, 1–290.
Robert, V., Günay, F., Le Goff, G., Boussès, P., Sulesco, T., Khalin, A., Medlock, J.M., Kampen, H., Petrić, D., & Schaffner, F. (2019). Distribution chart for Euro-Mediterranean mosquitoes (western Palaearctic region). Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association, 37, 1–28.
Rueda, L.M., Pecor, J.E., Lowen., R. G., & Carder, M. (2008). New record and updated checklist of the mosquitoes of Afghanistan and Iraq. Journal of Vector Ecology, 3(2), 397–402.
Séguy, E. (1924). Les moustiques de l’Afrique Mineure, de l’Égypte et de la Syrie. Encyclopédie Entomologique A, 1, 1–257.
Senevet, G., & Andarelli, L. (1959). Les moustiques de l’Afrique du Nord et du Bassin Meditérranéen. Les genres Culex, Uranotaenia, Theobaldia, Orthopodomyia et Mansonia. P. Lechevallier (Ed.), Encyclopédie Entomologique (Paris), 35, 1–383.
Senevet, G. (1947a). Le genre Culex en Afrique du nord. I. Les larves. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, 25(2), 109–136.
Senevet, G. (1949). Le genre Culex en Afrique du Nord. 2. Les armures genitales mâles. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, 27(1), 48–65.
Sicart, M. (1954). Contribution a l’étude des nymphes du genre Culex en Tunisie. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Tunisie, 27–29.
Stackelberg, A.A. (1937). Faune de l’URSS. Insectes, Diptères. Vol. III no. 4. Fam. Culicidae (Subfam. Culicinae). Institut zoologique de l’Academie des Sciences de l’URSS, Nouvelle Série No. 11, Moscow, 1–258.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex pusillus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_pusillus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
