NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [restrict, tie up (L)]
Type locality: Almoloya, Oaxaca, Mexico
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Berlin & Belkin 1980
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Dyar & Knab 1906d: 222 (L*)
Dyar 1928: 348 (M*, F, L*)
Lane 1953: 527 (M*, F, P*, L)
Stone & Knight 1957a: 55 (type information)
Berlin & Belkin 1980: 26 (M*, F*, P*, L*; keys, tax., bionomics, distribution; from subgenus Microculex)
Pecor et al. 2002: 242 (taxonomy, distribution; Belize)
Mendenhall et. al. 2011: 148 (distribution; Colombia)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. consternator Dyar & Knab
1908: 59 (M, F). Type locality: Córdoba, [Veracruz], Mexico (USNM). References: Howard et al. 1915: 333 (synonymy); Stone & Knight 1957a: 46 (lectotype designation); Belkin, Schick, & Heinemann 1965a: 38 (type locality information)
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Belkin, J.N., Schick, R.X., & Heinemann, S.J. (1965a). Mosquito studies (Diptera: Culicidae). V. Mosquitoes originally described from Middle America. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 1(5), 1–95.
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.
Dyar, H.G. (1928). The mosquitoes of the Americas. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution for Science.
Dyar, H.G., & Knab, F. (1906d). The larvae of Culicidae classified as independent organisms. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 14(4), 169–230.
Dyar, H.G., & Knab, F. (1908). Descriptions of some new mosquitoes from tropical America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 35(1632), 53–70.
Howard, L.O., Dyar, H.G., & Knab, F. (1915). The mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies: Vol. 3. Systematic description (in two parts). Part I. Públication No. 159. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution for Science.
Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.
Mendenhall, I.H., Giraldo-Calderon, G.I., Ocampo, C.D., Wesson, D.M., & Pecor, J.E. (2011). First record of Culex (Anoedioporpa) restrictor from Colombia. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 27(2), 148.
Pecor, J.E., Harbach, R.E., Peyton, EL, Roberts, D.R., Rejmánková, E., Manguin, S., & Palanko, J. (2002). Mosquito studies in Belize, Central America: Records, taxonomic notes and a checklist of species. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 18(4), 241–276.
Stone, A., & Knight, K.L. (1957a). Type specimens of mosquitoes in the United States National Museum. IV. The genus Culex (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 47(2), 42–59.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex restrictor species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_restrictor, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
