Culex damascenoi Duret, 1969

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Reinaldo G. Damasceno

Type locality: Rio Preto, Municipio de João Goulard, Amazonas, Brazil

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

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

None

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Brazil, French Guiana.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Duret 1969c: 143 (M*)

Belkin et al. 1971: 27 (type locality information)

Berlin & Belkin 1980: 42 (M*, P; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution)

Harbach et al. 1991: 193 (type information)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. menui Clastrier

1971: 649 (M*, P*) (MNHP). Type locality: Maripasoula, French Guiana [Guiana] (A). References: Berlin & Belkin 1980: 42 (synonymy).

 

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.

Clastrier, J. (1971). Sur deux Melanoconion et un nouvel Aedinus de la Guyane Franҫaise (Dipt. Culicidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 7(3), 629–654.

Duret, J.P. (1969c). Culex (Anoedioporpa) damascenoi una nueva especie del Brasil (Diptera- Culicidae). Neotropica-La Plata, 15(4–8), 143–145.

Harbach, R.E., Gaffigan, T.V., & Pecor, J.E. (1991). The J. Pedro Duret mosquito collection (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 22(for 1990) (3), 192–195.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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