Culex belkini Stone & Penn, 1948

AUSTRALASIAN REGION

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Etymology: John Nicholas Belkin

Type locality: West Cape, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Lee et al. 1989a

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 

larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex belkini DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Stone & Penn, 1948: 114 (M*, F, P*, L*)

Belkin 1962: 225 (M*, F, P*, L*)

Mattingly 1971a: Pl. 25 (L. head*, terminal segs.*)

Lee et al. 1989a: 8 (F; key, tax., bion., distr., review)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Belkin, J.N. (1962). The mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae) (Vols. 1–2). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H., & Russell, R.C. (1989a). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 7). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series, 2. Canberra: Australian Government.

Mattingly, P.F. (1971a). Contributions to the mosquito fauna of Southeast Asia. XII. Illustrated keys to the genera of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 7(4), 1–84.

Stone, A., & Penn, G.H. (1948). A new subgenus and two new species of the genus Culex L. (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 50(5), 109–120.

 

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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