Culex originator Gordon & Evans, 1922

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: not stated [source, beginning (L)]

Type locality: Macapá, near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Berlin & Belkin 1980

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex originator DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Argentina, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Lesser Antilles (includes Grenada, Martinique, Trinidad and Tobago).

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Gordon & Evans 1922: 323 (M*, F, L*)

Senevet & Abonnenc 1939a: 112 (M*, L*)

Lane 1953: 394 (M*, F, L)

Fauran 1961a: 12 (P*)

Belkin 1968b: 18 (lectotype designation)

Belkin et al. 1971: 27 (type locality information)

Belkin & Heinemann 1976a: 272 (distribution; Grenada)

Berlin & Belkin 1980: 50 (M*, F, P*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Belkin, J.N. (1968b). Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). IX. The type specimens of New World mosquitoes in European museums. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 3(4), 1–69.

Belkin, J.N., & Heinemann, S.J. (1976a). Collection records of the project “Mosquitoes of Middle America” 6. Southern Lesser Antilles: Barbados (BAR), Dominica (DOM), Grenada (GR, GRR), St. Lucia (LU), St. Vincent (VT). Mosquito Systematics, 8(3), 237–297.

Belkin, J.N., Schick, R.X., & Heinemann, S.J. (1971). Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). XXV. Mosquitoes originally described from Brazil. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 7(5), 1–64.

Berlin, O.G.W., & Belkin, J.N. (1980). Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). 36. Subgenera Aedinus, Tinolestes and Anoedioporpa of Culex. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 17(2), 1–104.

Fauran, P. (1961a). Notes sur les moustiques de la Guyane. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur de la Guyane Française et du Territoire de l’Inini, 22(464), 1–15.

Gordon, R.M., & Evans, A.M. (1922). Mosquitoes collected in the Manáos Region of the Amazon. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 16(3), 315–338.

Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.

Senevet, G., & Abonnenc, E. (1939a). Les moustiques de la Guyane Franҫaise. II. Le genre Culex. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, 17(1), 62–134.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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