AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: not stated [solitary (L); poss. ref. to relationship to mimeticus and mimulus]
Type locality: Anggi Lakes, Western New Guinea (Papua)
Type depository: Location Unknown (LU)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Lee et al. 1989a
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Culex (Culex.) - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Culex (Culex.) - Indomalayan - Adult
WRBU - Culex (Culex.) - Indomalayan - Larva
WRBU - Culex (Culex.) - Palearctic - Adult
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Indonesia (West Papua), Papua New Guinea.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Bonne-Wepster 1938: 394 (M*, F*)
Bonne-Wepster 1954: 129 (M, F*, L)
Lee et al. 1989a: 243 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bonne-Wepster, J. (1938). Notes on mosquitoes from the Netherlands Indies. A new Culex from New Guinea: Culex (Culex) solitarius nov. sp. Description of male terminalia of Culex (C.) miraculosus B. -W. Mededeelingen van den Dienst der Volksgezondheid in Nederlandsch-Indië, 27(3), 394–396.
Bonne-Wepster, J. (1954). Synopsis of a hundred common non-anopheline mosquitoes of the Greater and Lesser Sundas, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Documenta de medicina geographica et tropica, 6, 1–29.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex solitarius species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_solitarius, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
