Culex telesilla De Meillon & Lavoipierre, 1945

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: not stated [poss. ref. to Telesilla, Greek poetess, native of Argos]

Type locality: Yangambi, [Orientale], Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]

Type depository: South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa (SIAM), Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Jupp 1996

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex telesilla DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

De Meillon & Lavoipierre 1945 (P*, L*). In De Meillon et al. 1945: 91

De Meillon 1947a: 110 (M*, F)

Hopkins 1952: 326 (L*)

Rickenbach et al. 1976: 97 (distribution)

Segerman 1990: 54 (invalid holotype)

Townsend 1990: 141 (type information)

Jupp 1996 (M*, F*; key)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

De Meillon, B. (1947a). New records and species of biting insects from the Ethiopian region. II. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 10(1), 110–124.

De Meillon, B., & Lavoipierre, M. (1944). New records and species of biting insects from the Ethiopian region. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 7, 38–67.

De Meillon, B., Parent, M., & Black, L.O.C. (1945). Descriptions of new larvae and pupae of Ethiopian Culicini. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 36(1), 85–101.

Hopkins, G.H.E. (1952). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region: Larval bionomics of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae (2nd ed., Vol. 1). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

Jupp, P.G. (1996). Mosquitoes of southern Africa. Culicinae and Toxorhynchitinae. Hartebeespoort, Republic of South Africa: Ekogilde

Rickenbach, A., Eouzan, J.-P., Ferrara, L., & Bailly-Choumara, H. (1976). Données nouvelles sur la presence, la frequence et la repartition des Toxorhynchitinae et Culicinae (Diptera, Culicidae) au Cameroun. 2. Genres Eretmapodites et Culex. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 14(2), 93–100.

Segerman, J. (1990). A list of the type specimens of Culicidae housed in the Department of Medical Entomology at the South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg. Mosquito Systematics, 22(1), 53–56.

Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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