Culex stenolepis Dyar & Knab, 1908

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology:  not stated [narrow scale (Gr); poss. very narrow scales on wings]

Type locality: Córdoba, [Veracruz], Mexico

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex stenolepis DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Dyar & Knab 1908: 60 (M, F)

Martínez Palacíos 1950: 187 (M*)

Lane 1953: 357 (M*, F, L)

Stone & Knight 1957a: 56 (lectotype designation)

Bram 1967a: 104 (M*, F, L)

 

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.

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.

Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.

Martínez Palacios, A. (1950). Identificación de los mosquitos Mexicanos del subgénero Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) por la genitalia masculina. Revista de la Sociedad Mexica de Historia Natural, 11(1–4), 183–187.

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