AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: F. A. Perkins
Type locality: Umasini River, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Lee et al. 1989a
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Stone & Penn 1948:110 (M*, F, P*, L*)
Laird 1955: 285 (L*)
Stone 1957b: 172 (synonymy)
Belkin 1962: 266 (M*, F, P*, L*; from synonymy)
Lee et al. 1989a: 15 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Belkin, J.N. (1962). The mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae) (Vols. 1–2). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Laird, M. (1955). Mosquitos and malaria in the hill country of the New Hebrides and Solomon Islands. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 46(2), 275–289.
Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H., & Russell, R.C. (1989a). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 7). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series, 2. Canberra: Australian Government.
Stone, A. (1957b). Notes on types of mosquitoes in the Hungarian National Museum (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 50(2), 171–174.
Stone, A., & Penn, G.H. (1948). A new subgenus and two new species of the genus Culex L. (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 50(5), 109–120.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex perkinsi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_perkinsi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
