Culex sphinx Howard, Dyar & Knab, 1913

NEOTROPICAL REGION 

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Etymology: not stated [sphinx]

Type locality: Nassau [New Providence Island], Bahama Islands

Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex sphinx DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Bahamas, Cuba.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

 

Howard, Dyar & Knab 1913: Fig. 134, 1915: 301 (M*, F)

Lane 1953: 335 (M*, F, L*)

 Stone & Knight 1957a: 56 (lectotype designation)

 Bram 1967a: 101 (M*, F, L)

 Gutsevich & García 1969: 6 (distribution; Cuba)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Bram, R.A. (1967a). Classification of Culex subgenus Culex in the New World (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 120(3557), 1–122.

Gutsevich, A.V., & García-Avila, I. (1969). Nuevas especies de mosquitos (Culicidae) para Cuba. Torreia, 13, 3–8.

Howard, L.O., Dyar, H.G., & Knab, F. (1913). The mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies (Vol. 2)(for 1912). Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution for Science.

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./span>

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 sphinx species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_sphinx, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].