Culex usquatus Dyar, 1922

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Subfamily
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Subgenus
Complex

 

Etymology: not stated 

Type locality: Paramaribo, Surinam

Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Culex (Culex.) - Neotropical - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex usquatus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Lesser Antilles (includes Trinidad and Tobago), Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Dyar 1922d: 122 (M, L)

Stone & Knight 1957a: 57 (lectotype designation)

Bram 1967a: 49 (M*; taxonomy from synonym with coronator)

Linton et al. 2013 (bionomics, molecular taxonomy, distribution; Ecuador)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

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.

Dyar, H.G. (1922d). Mosquito notes (Diptera, Culicidae). Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 10(4–6), 92–99.

Linton, Y.-M., Pecor, J.E., Porter, C.H., Mitchell, L.B., Garzón-Moreno, A., Foley, D H., Pecor, D.B., Wilkerson, R.C. (2013). Mosquitoes of eastern Amazonian Ecuador: Biodiversity, bionomics and barcodes. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 108(Suppl. 1), 100–109.

Stone, A., & Knight, K.L. (1957a). Type specimens of mosquitoes in the United States National Museum. IV. The genus Culex (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 47(2), 42–59.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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