NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: thorny (L); “spinose legs”
Type locality: São Paulo, Brazil
Type depository: Faculdade de Saude Publica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (FSP)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Lutz 1905: 26 (M, F)
Lane 1953: 369 (M*, F, P*, L*)
Bram 1967a: 103 (M*, F, L)
Belkin 1968b: 20 (type information)
Belkin et al. 1971: 22 (lectotype designation)
Lourenço-de-Oliveira & Townsend 1989: 431 (M*, L*; invalid lectotype designation, neotype designation)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Belkin, J.N., Schick, R.X., & Heinemann, S.J. (1971). Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). XXV. Mosquitoes originally described from Brazil. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 7(5), 1–64.
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.
Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.
Lourenço-de-Oliveira, R., & Townsend, B. (1989). On Culex spinosus Lutz (Diptera: Culicidae), 1905. Designation of a neotype. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 84, 431–433.
Lutz, A. (1905). Novas espécies de mosquitos do Brasil. Imprensa Médica (São Paulo), 3, 26–29, 65–69, 81–83, 101–104, 125–128, 169–172, 202–203, 269–271, 287, 290, 311–314, 347–350.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex spinosus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_spinosus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
