AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: three filaments (L); ref. to “three filament-like divisions of the harpagones” [claspette]
Type locality: Kabete [Kenya]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Jupp 1996
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan De Nova Island), Malawi, Mozambique, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1914b: 65 (M*, F)
Edwards 1941: 321 (M*, F)
Worth & De Meillon 1960: 250 (distribution)
Service 1976a (distribution; Gabon)
Ribeiro et al. 1982 (L*)
Jupp 1996 (M*, F*; key)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
ssp. aenescens Edwards
1941: 323, 421 (M*, P). Type locality: Kameranjoka, Ruwenzori foothills, [Toro District], Uganda (NHMUK). Distribution: Uganda. References: Hopkins 1952: 308 (L*); Mattingly 1956a: 42 (lectotype designation). Etymology: not stated [copper, bronze colored) (L); ref. to scutum with a “brassy-yellow tint”].
CITED REFERENCES
Edwards, F.W. (1914b). New species of Culicidae in the British museum, with notes on the genitalia of some african Culex. Bulletin of Entomological Research (London), 5(1), 63–81.
Edwards, F.W. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. Culicine adults and pupae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology.
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.
Mattingly, P.F. (1956a). Lectotypes of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the British Museum. Part II. Genera Toxorhynchites, Aëdes (Subgenera Aedimorphus, Banksinella), Culex (Subgenera Neoculex, Culiciomyia, Mocthogenes, Culex). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series A: General Entomology, 31(4–6), 37–44.
Ribeiro, H., Danilov, V.N., & da Cunha Ramos, H. (1982). Description of the fourth instar larva of Culex (Culex) trifilatus trifilatus Edwards, 1914 (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 14(2), 94–101.
Service, M.W. (1976a). Contribution to the knowledge of the mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Gabon. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 14(3), 259–263.
Worth, C.B., & De Meillon, B. (1960). Culicine mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) recorded from the province of Moçambique (Portuguese East Africa) and their relationship to arthropod-borne viruses. Anais do Instituto de Hygiene e Medicina Tropical, 17(1–2), 231–256.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex trifilatus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_trifilatus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
