NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [source, beginning (L)]
Type locality: Macapá, near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Berlin & Belkin 1980
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Argentina, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Lesser Antilles (includes Grenada, Martinique, Trinidad and Tobago).
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Gordon & Evans 1922: 323 (M*, F, L*)
Senevet & Abonnenc 1939a: 112 (M*, L*)
Lane 1953: 394 (M*, F, L)
Fauran 1961a: 12 (P*)
Belkin 1968b: 18 (lectotype designation)
Belkin et al. 1971: 27 (type locality information)
Belkin & Heinemann 1976a: 272 (distribution; Grenada)
Berlin & Belkin 1980: 50 (M*, F, P*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
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., & Heinemann, S.J. (1976a). Collection records of the project “Mosquitoes of Middle America” 6. Southern Lesser Antilles: Barbados (BAR), Dominica (DOM), Grenada (GR, GRR), St. Lucia (LU), St. Vincent (VT). Mosquito Systematics, 8(3), 237–297.
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.
Fauran, P. (1961a). Notes sur les moustiques de la Guyane. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur de la Guyane Française et du Territoire de l’Inini, 22(464), 1–15.
Gordon, R.M., & Evans, A.M. (1922). Mosquitoes collected in the Manáos Region of the Amazon. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 16(3), 315–338.
Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.
Senevet, G., & Abonnenc, E. (1939a). Les moustiques de la Guyane Franҫaise. II. Le genre Culex. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, 17(1), 62–134.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex originator species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_originator, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
