Culex perkinsi Stone & Penn, 1948

AUSTRALASIAN REGION

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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 LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 

larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex perkinsi 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].