Culex thriambus Dyar, 1921

NEOTROPICAL & NEARCTIC REGIONS

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Etymology: not stated [poss. ref. to Thria, nurse of Apollo, inventer of divination]

Type locality: Kerrville, Texas, United States

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Carpenter & LaCasse 1955

Dodge 1966

Bohart & Washino 1978

Darsie & Ward 2005

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Nearctic - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Nearctic - Larva

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, United States (continental), Venezuela.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Dyar 1921a: 33 (M, F, L)

Galindo & Kelley 1943: 87 (M, F, L; to sp.)

Yamaguti & LaCasse 1951c: 70 (M*, F*, L*)

Carpenter & LaCasse 1955: 296 (M*, F*, L*; keys)

Bohart & Washino 1957: 463 (L*)

Stone & Knight 1957a: 57 (lectotype designation)

Dodge 1966: 372 (first instar L; key)

Bram 1967a: 107 (M*, F, L)

Bohart & Washino 1978: 134 (M, F*, L*; keys, tax. bionomics, distribution)

Strickman 1988a: 490 (synonym with peus)

Eldridge & Harbach 1989: 247 (conservation of thriambus)

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1991 (Opinion 1644; conservation of name)

Eldridge & Harbach 1992 (conservation of stigmatosoma & thriambus)

Darsie & Ward 2005 (F*, L*; keys, distribution)

Ortega-Morales et al. 2011 (taxonomy, distribution)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. affinis Adams

1903: 25 (F). Type locality: [Oak Creek Canyon], Arizona, United States (USNM). References: Strickman 1988a: 490 (synonym).

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Osorno-Mesa, E. (1947). Una nueva especie de Anopheles de Bogotá Colombia. Caldasia, 4, 431–446.

Sallum, M.A.M., Obando, R.G., Carrejo, N. et al. Identification key to the Anopheles mosquitoes of South America (Diptera: Culicidae). Parasites and Vectors, 13, 542 (2020). https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/id-keys-anopheles 

Stone, A., & Knight, K.L. (1956b). Type specimens of mosquitoes in the United States National Museum. III. The genera Anopheles and Chagasia (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 46(9), 276–280.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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