NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [narrow scale (Gr); poss. very narrow scales on wings]
Type locality: Córdoba, [Veracruz], Mexico
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Dyar & Knab 1908: 60 (M, F)
Martínez Palacíos 1950: 187 (M*)
Lane 1953: 357 (M*, F, L)
Stone & Knight 1957a: 56 (lectotype designation)
Bram 1967a: 104 (M*, F, L)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bram, R.A. (1967a). Classification of Culex subgenus Culex in the New World (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 120(3557), 1–122.
Dyar, H.G., & Knab, F. (1908). Descriptions of some new mosquitoes from tropical America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 35(1632), 53–70.
Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.
Martínez Palacios, A. (1950). Identificación de los mosquitos Mexicanos del subgénero Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) por la genitalia masculina. Revista de la Sociedad Mexica de Historia Natural, 11(1–4), 183–187.
Stone, A., & Knight, K.L. (1957a). Type specimens of mosquitoes in the United States National Museum. IV. The genus Culex (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 47(2), 42–59.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex stenolepis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_stenolepis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
