Culex tenagius van Someren, 1945

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: not stated [shoals, shallows (tenagos) (Gr)]

Type locality: Bwamba County, Toro District, Uganda 

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex tenagius DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda.

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IMPORTANT REFERENCES

van Someren 1954b: 122 (M*, F, P*, L*)

Rodhain et al. 1977 (distribution)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Rodhain, F., Boutonnier, A., & Coulanges, P. (1977). Bibliographie des Culicides de Madagascar. Archives des l’Instituts Pasteur de Madagascar, 46, 485–495.

van Someren, E.C.C. (1954b). Ethiopian Culicidae: Descriptions of a new Culex, the female of Eretmapodites tonsus Edwards and the early stages of two Aedes of the subgenus Banksinella Theobald. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series B: Taxonomy, 23(7–8), 119–126.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex tenagius species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_tenagius, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].