Culex bougainvillensis Steffan, 1979

AUSTRALASIAN REGION

Family
Subfamily
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Genus
Subgenus
Group

 

Etymology: Bougainville, Solomon Islands

Type locality: Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Lee et al. 1982

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

New Guinea, Solomon Islands.

 

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Steffan 1979: 138 (M*)

Lee et al. 1982: 128 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)

Lee et al. 1989a: 12 (taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Russell, R.C., & Marks, E.N. (1982). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 2). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series, 2. Canberra: Australian Government.

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.

Steffan, W.A. (1979). New Culex (Acallyntrum) from the Papuan Subregion (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 16(2), 133–139.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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