NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Valley of Canaã, Espirito Santo, Brazil
Type locality: Vale do Canaã, S Joao de Petropolis, Espirito Santo, Brazil
Type depository: Instituto Nacional de Endemias Rurais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil (INER) [Now Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, Brazil (CPRR)]
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Berlin & Belkin 1980
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Argentina, Brazil.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Lane & Whitman 1943: 398 (M*, F, P*, L*)
Belkin et al. 1971: 27 (type locality information)
Xavier 1973: 160 (type information)
Berlin & Belkin 1980: 40 (M*, P, L; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Belkin, J.N., Schick, R.X., & Heinemann, S.J. (1971). Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). XXV. Mosquitoes originally described from Brazil. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 7(5), 1–64.
Berlin, O.G.W., & Belkin, J.N. (1980). Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). 36. Subgenera Aedinus, Tinolestes and Anoedioporpa of Culex. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 17(2), 1–104.
Lane, J., & Whitman, L. (1943). Novas espécies de Culex do Brasil (Diptera, Culicidae). Revista de entomología, 14(3), 389–408.
Xavier, S.H. (1973). Mosquito types of Brazil. Mosquito Systematics, 5(2), 159–160.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex canaanensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_canaanensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
