AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [poss. ref. to Telesilla, Greek poetess, native of Argos]
Type locality: Yangambi, [Orientale], Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]
Type depository: South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa (SIAM), Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Jupp 1996
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
De Meillon & Lavoipierre 1945 (P*, L*). In De Meillon et al. 1945: 91
De Meillon 1947a: 110 (M*, F)
Hopkins 1952: 326 (L*)
Rickenbach et al. 1976: 97 (distribution)
Segerman 1990: 54 (invalid holotype)
Townsend 1990: 141 (type information)
Jupp 1996 (M*, F*; key)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B. (1947a). New records and species of biting insects from the Ethiopian region. II. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 10(1), 110–124.
De Meillon, B., & Lavoipierre, M. (1944). New records and species of biting insects from the Ethiopian region. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 7, 38–67.
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.
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
Rickenbach, A., Eouzan, J.-P., Ferrara, L., & Bailly-Choumara, H. (1976). Données nouvelles sur la presence, la frequence et la repartition des Toxorhynchitinae et Culicinae (Diptera, Culicidae) au Cameroun. 2. Genres Eretmapodites et Culex. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 14(2), 93–100.
Segerman, J. (1990). A list of the type specimens of Culicidae housed in the Department of Medical Entomology at the South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg. Mosquito Systematics, 22(1), 53–56.
Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex telesilla species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_telesilla, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
