PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: rapid, a torrent (L); ref. to being found in river water left after flooding
Type locality: Schwartza River [Thueringia], Germany
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Harbach 1988
Becker et al. 2010
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Crimean Peninsula, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (includes Corsica), Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Shetland Islands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Martini 1925: 336 (M, F, L)
Natvig 1948: 455 (M*, F, L)
Mattingly 1951a: 172 (M*; taxonomy)
Noèldner 1953: 7 (M*, F, L*; as exilis)
Senevet & Andarelli 1959: 203 (M*, F, P, L)
Sicart & Ruffie 1960: 647 (P*)
Service 1968: 313 (M*; taxonomy)
Lotfi 1970: 401 (distribution)
Iversen 1971: 235 (distribution)
Gutsevich et al. 1974: 392 (M, F, L)
Iglisch 1977: 270 (M*)
Harbach 1988: 40 (M*, F, P*, L*; taxonomy, keys, bionomics, distribution)
Alten et al. 2000 (distribution; Turkey)
Aranda et al. 2000: 7 (distribution; Spain)
Ribeiro et al. 2002 (distribution; Portugal)
Beck et al. 2003: 24 (distribution; Luxembourg)
Becker et al. 2010: 279 (M*, F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, distribution, bionomics)
Ahmed et al. 2011 (distribution; Saudi Arabia)
Danabalan et al. 2012 (molecular taxonomy; United Kingdom)
Gunay et al. 2015 (molecular taxonomy, distribution; Turkey)
Robert et al. 2019 (distribution; Western Palearctic)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. pavlovsky Shingarev
1928: 52 (M*). Type locality: Naryn District, Tomsk, Siberia, former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) [Russia] (TMS).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Ahmed, A.M., Shaalan, E.A., Aboul-Soud, M.A.M., Tripet, F., & Al-Khedhairy, A.A. (2011). Mosquito vectors survey in the Al-Ahsaa district of eastern Saudi Arabia. Journal of Insect Science, 11, 176.
Alten, B., Caglar, S.S., & Ozer, N. (2000). Malaria and its vectors in Turkey. European Mosquito Bulletin, 7, 27–33.
Aranda, C., Eritja, R., Schaffner, F., & Escosa, R. (2000). Culex (Culex) torrentium Martini (Diptera: Culicidae) a new species from Spain. European Mosquito Bulletin, 8, 7–9.
Beck, M., Galm, M., Weitzel, T., Fohlmeister, V., Kasiser, A., Arnold, A., & Becker, N. (2003). Preliminary studies on the mosquito fauna of Luxembourg. European Mosquito Bulletin, 14, 21–24.
Becker, N., Petrić, D., Zgomba, M., Boase, C., Madon, M., Dahl, C., & Kaiser, A. (2010). Mosquitoes and their control (2nd ed.). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
Danabalan, R., Ponsonby, D.J., & Linton, Y.-M. (2012). A critical assessment of available molecular identification tools for determining the status of Culex pipiens s.l. in the United Kingdom. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 28(4), 68–74.
Gunay, F., Alten, B., Simsek, F., Aldemir, A., & Linton, Y.-M. (2015). Barcoding Turkish Culex mosquitoes to facilitate arbovirus vector, incrimination studies reveals hidden diversity and new potential vectors. Acta Tropica, 143, 112–120.
Gutsevich, A.V., Monchadskii, A.S., & Shtakel’berg, A.A. (1974). Mosquitoes, Family Culicidae. In Fauna of the USSR. Diptera. New series No. 100, 3(4). Jerusalem, Israel: Keter Publishing House. (Original work published 1971).
Harbach, R.E. (1988). Mosquitoes of the subgenus Culex in southwestern Asia and Egypt (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 24(1), 1–240.
Iglisch, I. (1977). Hausmücken (Culex-pipiens-Gruppe) als mögliche Üeberträger des Serumhepatitis-Virus. Untersuchungen zur Genitalmorphologie. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Zoologie, 64(3), 257–290.
Iversen, T.M. (1971). Culex torrentium Martini (Dipt. Culicidae) ny for Danmark, med en beskrivelse af larvebiotopen. Entomologiske meddelelser, 39, 235–239.
Lotfi, M.D. (1970). Iranian species of genus Culex (Culinae [sic]: Diptera). Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales, 63(3), 399–403.
Martini, E. (1925). Zwei bemerkenswerte Culiciden von einem eigenartigen Biotop. Internationale Revue der gesamte Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie, 12(5–6), 333–337.
Mattingly, P.F. (1951a). Culex (Culex) torrentium Martini, a mosquito new to Great Britain. Nature, 168(4265), 172–173.
Natvig, L.R. (1948). Contributions to the knowledge of the Danish and Fennoscandian mosquitoes: Culicini. Norsk entomologisk tidsskrift Suppl., I, xxiii.
Noeldner, E. (1953). Moustiques rares ou peu connus d’Alsace. Encyclopedie Entomologique B, 11, 1–45.
Ribeiro, H., Pires C.A., da Cunha Ramos, H., & Capela, R.A. (2002) Research on the mosquitoes of Portugal (Diptera, Culicidae). XII - The mosquitoes of Minhoand Douro Litoral. Garcia de Orta: Série de Zoologia, 24, 31–50.
Robert, V., Günay, F., Le Goff, G., Boussès, P., Sulesco, T., Khalin, A., Medlock, J.M., Kampen, H., Petrić, D., & Schaffner, F. (2019). Distribution chart for Euro-Mediterranean mosquitoes (western Palaearctic region). Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association, 37, 1–28.
Senevet, G., & Andarelli, L. (1959). Les moustiques de l’Afrique du Nord et du Bassin Meditérranéen. Les genres Culex, Uranotaenia, Theobaldia, Orthopodomyia et Mansonia. P. Lechevallier (Ed.), Encyclopédie Entomologique (Paris), 35, 1–383.
Service, M.W. (1968). The taxonomy and biology of two sympatric sibling species of Culex, C. pipiens and C. torrentium (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of Zoology, 156, 313–323.
Shingarev, N.I. (1928). Notes on Culicidae. III. Tropichenskai meditsina I: Veterinariia (Moscow), 6, 47–53.
Sicart, M., & Ruffie, J. (1960). Étude sur les nymphes des culicines du sous-bassin Aquitain. Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparée, 35, 631–647.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex torrentium species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_torrentium accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
