Culex obscurus (Leicester, 1908)

ORIENTAL REGION

Family
Subfamily
Tribe
Genus
Subgenus

 

Etymology: Not stated [dark, obscure (L); poss. ref. to “pale colorless pleura with black scaled legs and abdomen”]

Type locality: Malaya [Malaysia]

Type depositoryNatural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 

larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex obscurus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Leicester 1908: 194 (M, F, Acalleomyia)

Edwards 1922a: 285 (M*)

Bram 1967c (type information, lectotype designation)

Bram 1968: 53 (M*, F, P*, L*)

Lien et al. 1975 (distribution)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Bram, R.A. (1967c). Lectotype assignments for several species of the genus Culex in Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 69(4), 327–328.

Bram, R.A. (1968). A redescription of Culex (Acalleomyia) obscurus (Leicester) (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 70(1), 52–57.

Edwards, F.W. (1922a). A synopsis of adult Oriental culicine (including megarhinine and sabethine) mosquitoes. Part I. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 10(1), 249–293.

Leicester, G.F. (1908). The Culicidae of Malaya. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federated Malay States, 3(3), 18–261.

Lien, J.C., Kosman, L., Partono, F., Joesoef, A., Kosin, E., & Cross, J.H. (1975). A brief survey of mosquitoes in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Journal of Medical Entomology, 12(2), 233–239.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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