Culex chaguanco Casal, García & Fernández, 1968

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Chaguanaco (Amerindian tribe of SE Bolivia?)

Type locality: Tablillas, near Campamento Vespucio, Departamento San Martin, Salta, Argentina

Type depository: Instituto Nacional de Microbiologia, Buenos Aires, Argentina (INM)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Berlin & Belkin 1980

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex chaguanco DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Argentina

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Casal, García & Fernández 1968: 217 (M*)

Berlin & Belkin 1980: 48 (M*, F, P*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

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.

Casal, O.H., García, M., & Fernández, H.I. (1968). El subgénero Culex (Aedinus) Bourroul, 1904, nuevo para la entomofauna Argentina, con la descripción de una nueva especie (Diptera, Culicidae). Physis, 28(76), 217–218.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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