Culex umbripes Edwards, 1941

AFROTROPICAL REGION

Family
Culicidae
Subfamily
Culicinae
Tribe
Culicini
Genus
Culex
Subgenus
Culex
Group
Pipiens

 

Etymology: not stated [dark foot (L); ref. to very dark legs] 

Type locality: Pashie stream, Kundelungu Mountains, Katanga, Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex umbripes DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Distribution
Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Edwards 1941: 321 (F)

Mattingly 1953c: 339 (M*)

Mattingly 1956a: 42 (lectotype designation)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Edwards, F.W. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. Culicine adults and pupae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology.

Mattingly, P.F. (1953c). Notes on the Culicini of the Katanga (Diptera, Culicidae). Part I. Taxonomy. Revue de zoologie et de botanique Africaines, 47(3–4), 311–343.

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.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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