Culex corrigani Dyar & Knab, 1907

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: John Corrigan

Type locality: Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Berlin & Belkin 1980

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 

larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex corrigani DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama. 

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Dyar & Knab 1907c: 203 (F, L)

Dyar 1928: 347 (M*, F, L*)

Lane 1953: 392 (M*, F, L*)

Belkin, Schick, & Heinemann 1965:56 (type locality information)

Belkin 1968b: 14 (new combination)

Heinemann & Belkin 1977b: 452 (distribution)

Berlin & Belkin 1980: 56 (M*, F, P*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. chalcocorystes Martini

1914: 70 (M, F). Type locality: Porto Bello, Panama (NHMUK). References: Mattingly 1955c: 31 (lectotype designation)

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Belkin, J.N. (1968b). Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). IX. The type specimens of New World mosquitoes in European museums. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 3(4), 1–69.

Belkin, J.N., Schick, R.X., & Heinemann, S.J. (1965a). Mosquito studies (Diptera: Culicidae). V. Mosquitoes originally described from Middle America. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 1(5), 1–95.

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.

Dyar, H.G. (1928). The mosquitoes of the Americas. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution for Science.

Dyar, H.G., & Knab, F. (1907c). Descriptions of new mosquitoes from the Panama Canal Zone. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 15(4), 197–212.

Heinemann, S.J., & Belkin, J.N. (1977b). Collection records of the project Mosquitoes of Middle America. 8. Central America: Belize (BH), Guatemala (GUA), El Salvador (SAL), Honduras (HON), Nicaragua (Nl, NIC). Mosquito Systematics, 9(4), 403–454.

Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.

Martini, E. (1914). Some new American mosquitoes. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 2(5), 65–76.

Mattingly, P.F. (1955c). Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Tropical Institute at Hamburg. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 24, 27–33.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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