Culex canaanensis Lane & Whitman, 1943

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Valley of Canaã, Espirito Santo, Brazil

Type locality: Vale do Canaã, S Joao de Petropolis, Espirito Santo, Brazil 

Type depository: Instituto Nacional de Endemias Rurais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil (INER) [Now Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, Brazil (CPRR)]

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Berlin & Belkin 1980

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 

larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

None

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Argentina, Brazil.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Lane & Whitman 1943: 398 (M*, F, P*, L*)

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

Xavier 1973: 160 (type information)

Berlin & Belkin 1980: 40 (M*, P, L; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

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.

Lane, J., & Whitman, L. (1943). Novas espécies de Culex do Brasil (Diptera, Culicidae). Revista de entomología, 14(3), 389–408.

Xavier, S.H. (1973). Mosquito types of Brazil. Mosquito Systematics, 5(2), 159–160.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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