AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Shewa, Ethiopia (Romanized formerly as Shoa)
Type locality: Shoa [Shewa], Ethiopia
Type depository: Institut d'Enseignement et de Recherches Tropicales, Bondy, Seine, France. Now Centre de Faunistique de l'O.R.S.T.O.M. a Bondy, 93-France [See SSC] (IERT)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Ethiopia.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Hamon & Ovazza 1954: 416 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Harrison 1973c: 278 (type information)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
ssp. ugandae van Someren
1967: 14 (M*, F, P, L). Type locality: Ngogwe (33’E, 0’15’N), Uganda (NHMUK). Distribution: Uganda. Etymology: Uganda. Informal name: Ngogwe Ugandan Typical Mosquito.
CITED REFERENCES
Hamon, J., & Ovazza, M. (1954). Une nouvelle espècie de moustique (Culex shoae n. sp.) vivant sur les bananiers du haut plateau d’Éthiopie. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 47(3), 416–421.
Harrison, B.A. (1973b). A lectotype designation and description for Anopheles (An.) sinensis Wiedemann 1828, with a discussion of the classification and vector status of this and some other oriental Anopheles. Mosquito Systematics, 5(1), 1–13.
van Someren, E.C.C. (1967). The female and early stages of Culex (Culex) nakuruensis Mattingly, with a description of a new sub- species of Culex (Culex) shoae Hamon & Ovazza. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series B: Taxonomy, 36(1–2), 11–16.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex shoae species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_shoae, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
