AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Ellinor Catharine Cunningham van Someren
Type locality: Nairobi, [Central], Kenya
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1926a: 129 (M*, F)
Edwards 1941: 327 (M*, F*), 422 (P), 434 (L)
Hopkins 1952: 312 (L*)
Lewis 1956b: 715 (L)
Worth and De Meillon 1960: 250 (distribution)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
ssp. draconis Ingram and De Meillon
1927: 67 (M*, F*; as sp.). Type locality: Pietermaritzburg, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa] (NHMUK). Distribution: Republic of South Africa. References: Edwards 1941: 328 (M; to ssp.) 423 (P); Hopkins 1952: 313 (L); Jupp 1996 (M*, F*; key). Etymology: not stated [dragon (Gr); poss. ref. to characteristics of the male genitalia].
ssp. elgonicus Edwards
1941: 328 (M*). Type locality: Buginyanya, Mount Elgon, Uganda (NHMUK). Distribution: Ethiopia, Uganda. References: Mattingly 1956a: 43 (lectotype designation). Etymology: Mount Elgon, Uganda/Kenya.
CITED REFERENCES
Edwards, F.W. (1926a). Mosquito notes. VI. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 17(2), 101–131.
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).
Ingram, A., & De Meillon, B. (1927). A mosquito survey of certain parts of South Africa, with special reference to the carriers of malaria and their control. Part I. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 4, 1–81.
Lewis, D.J. (1956b). The Culex mosquitos of the Sudan. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 47(4), 703–721.
Worth, C.B., & De Meillon, B. (1960). Culicine mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) recorded from the province of Moçambique (Portuguese East Africa) and their relationship to arthropod-borne viruses. Anais do Instituto de Hygiene e Medicina Tropical, 17(1–2), 231–256.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex vansomereni species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_vansomereni, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
