ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: Not stated [dark, obscure (L); poss. ref. to “pale colorless pleura with black scaled legs and abdomen”]
Type locality: Malaya [Malaysia]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Leicester 1908: 194 (M, F, Acalleomyia)
Edwards 1922a: 285 (M*)
Bram 1967c (type information, lectotype designation)
Bram 1968: 53 (M*, F, P*, L*)
Lien et al. 1975 (distribution)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bram, R.A. (1967c). Lectotype assignments for several species of the genus Culex in Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 69(4), 327–328.
Bram, R.A. (1968). A redescription of Culex (Acalleomyia) obscurus (Leicester) (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 70(1), 52–57.
Edwards, F.W. (1922a). A synopsis of adult Oriental culicine (including megarhinine and sabethine) mosquitoes. Part I. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 10(1), 249–293.
Leicester, G.F. (1908). The Culicidae of Malaya. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federated Malay States, 3(3), 18–261.
Lien, J.C., Kosman, L., Partono, F., Joesoef, A., Kosin, E., & Cross, J.H. (1975). A brief survey of mosquitoes in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Journal of Medical Entomology, 12(2), 233–239.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex obscurus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_obscurus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
