Culex usquatissimus Dyar, 1922

NEOTROPICAL REGION

Family
Subfamily
Tribe
Genus
Subgenus
Complex

 

Etymology: not stated [large (L); larger than usquatus] 

Type locality: Toro Point, Canal Zone, Panama

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 usquatissimus DNA sequences

 

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Venezuela.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Dyar 1922b: 19 (M*, F)

 Stone & Knight 1957a: 57 (lectotype designation)

Bram 1967a: 51 (M*; taxonomy from synonym with coronator)

 

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. (1922b). Note on the male genitalia of Culex coronator and allied forms (Diptera, Culicidae). Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 10(1–3), 18–19.

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