Culex striatipes Edwards, 1941

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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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 LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex striatipes 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].