AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [hoarfrost, gray (L); prob. Reference to “thorax covered with frosty-grey scales”
Type locality: Agumi, Nigeria
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Sudan and South Sudan, Uganda.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1901d: 8 (M*, F*)
Macfie & Ingram 1922 (F*)
Edwards 1941: 349 (M*, F*), 427 (P)
Hopkins 1952: 335 (L*)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. pallidothoracis Theobald
1909b: 17 (M*, F*). Type locality: Obuasi, Ashanti, Gold Coast [Ghana] (NHMUK)
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
ssp. eschirasi Galliard
1931b: 227 (M, L). Type locality: Sainte-Croix des Eschiras, Gabon (NHMUK). Distribution: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Uganda. References: Edwards 1941: 350 (taxonomy); Hopkins 1952: 337 (L*); Townsend 1990: 71 (type information). Etymology: after type locality. Informal name: Eschiras Gabonese Typical Mosquito.
CITED REFERENCES
Edwards, F.W. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. Culicine adults and pupae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology.
Galliard, H. (1931b). Culicides du Gabon. I. Culicinés, avec la description d’une espèce et de deux variétés nouvelles. Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparée, 9(3), 225–232.
Hopkins, G.H.E. (1952). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region: Larval bionomics of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae (2nd ed., Vol. 1). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Macfie, J.W.S., & Ingram, A. (1922). On the genital armature of the female mosquito. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 16(2), 157–188.
Theobald, F.V. (1901d). Notes on a collection of mosquitoes from West Africa, and descriptions of new species. Appendix. Memoirs of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 4, i–xiv.
Theobald, F.V. (1909b). Descriptions of the new mosquitoes collected by Dr. Graham in Ashanti. Gold Coast Miscellaneous Publication No. 237. London, England: Colonial Office.
Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex pruina species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_pruina, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
