AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [groove, wrinkle foot (L); poss. ref. to striped middle legs]
Type locality: Nairobi, [Central], Kenya
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Jupp 1996
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan De Nova Island), Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1941: 311 (M*, F)
De Meillon et al. 1945: 90 (P*, L*)
Hopkins 1952: 296 (L*)
Mattingly 1956a: 42 (type information)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
ssp. joanae Muspratt
1955: 185 (M, F, L). Type locality: Whiskey Spruit Stream near Lydenburg Sabie Road, Transvaal [Republic of South Africa] (SAIM). Distribution: Republic of South Africa. References: Jupp 1996 (M*, F*; key). Etymology: Joan Wright.
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B., Parent, M., & Black, L.O.C. (1945). Descriptions of new larvae and pupae of Ethiopian Culicini. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 36(1), 85–101.
Edwards, F.W. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. Culicine adults and pupae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology.
Hopkins, G.H.E. (1952). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region: Larval bionomics of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae (2nd ed., Vol. 1). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Jupp, P.G. (1996). Mosquitoes of southern Africa. Culicinae and Toxorhynchitinae. Hartebeespoort, Republic of South Africa: Ekogilde
Mattingly, P.F. (1956a). Lectotypes of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the British Museum. Part II. Genera Toxorhynchites, Aëdes (Subgenera Aedimorphus, Banksinella), Culex (Subgenera Neoculex, Culiciomyia, Mocthogenes, Culex). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series A: General Entomology, 31(4–6), 37–44.
Muspratt, J. (1955). Research on South African Culicini (Diptera, Culicidae). III. A check-list of the species and their distribution, with notes on taxonomy bionomics and identification. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 18(2), 149–207.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex striatipes species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_striatipes, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
