Culex spinosus Lutz, 1905

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: thorny (L); “spinose legs”

Type locality: São Paulo, Brazil

Type depository: Faculdade de Saude Publica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (FSP)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex spinosus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Lutz 1905: 26 (M, F)

Lane 1953: 369 (M*, F, P*, L*)

 Bram 1967a: 103 (M*, F, L)

 Belkin 1968b: 20 (type information)

 Belkin et al. 1971: 22 (lectotype designation)

 Lourenço-de-Oliveira & Townsend 1989: 431 (M*, L*; invalid lectotype designation, neotype designation)

 

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., 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.

Bram, R.A. (1967a). Classification of Culex subgenus Culex in the New World (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 120(3557), 1–122.

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

Lourenço-de-Oliveira, R., & Townsend, B. (1989). On Culex spinosus Lutz (Diptera: Culicidae), 1905. Designation of a neotype. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 84, 431–433.

Lutz, A. (1905). Novas espécies de mosquitos do Brasil. Imprensa Médica (São Paulo), 3, 26–29, 65–69, 81–83, 101–104, 125–128, 169–172, 202–203, 269–271, 287, 290, 311–314, 347–350.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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