Culex terzii Edwards, 1941

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: J.E. Terzi

Type locality: Salisbury, [Mashonaland], Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Jupp 1996

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex terzii DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Republic of South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Edwards 1941: 312 (M*, F)

Mattingly 1956a: 42 (type information)

van Someren 1958: 84 (P*, L*)

Muspratt 1961: 98 (L)

Jupp 1996 (M*, F*; key)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Edwards, F.W. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. Culicine adults and pupae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology.

Jupp, P.G. (1996). Mosquitoes of southern Africa. Culicinae and Toxorhynchitinae. Hartebeespoort, Republic of South Africa: Ekogilde

Mattingly, P.F. (1956a). Lectotypes of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the British Museum. Part II. Genera Toxorhynchites, Aëdes (Subgenera Aedimorphus, Banksinella), Culex (Subgenera Neoculex, Culiciomyia, Mocthogenes, Culex). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series A: General Entomology, 31(4–6), 37–44.

Muspratt, J. (1961). Research on South African Culicini (Diptera: Culicidae). VI. Two new sub-species and notes on bionomics and distribution. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 24(1), 92–103.

van Someren, E.C.C. (1958). Ethiopian Culicidae: A description of the early stages of Culex (Culex) terzii Edwards. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series B: Taxonomy, 27(5–6), 84–88.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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