Culex weschei Edwards, 1935

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: not stated 

Type locality: Sunyani [Ashanti], Gold Coast [Ghana]

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Jupp 1996

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Culex weschei DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan De Nova Island), Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Sudan and South Sudan, Togo.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Edwards 1935a: 136 (M, F)

Edwards 1941: 345 (M*, F)
Hopkins 1952: 330 (L*)
Rickenbach et al. 1976: 97 (distribution)
Jupp 1996 (M*, F*; key)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

 sspgediensis Edwards

1941: 345 (M, F). Type locality: Gede, near Mombasa, [Coast], Kenya (NHMUK).  Distribution:    Kenya.  References: van Someren, Teesdale, & Furlong 1955: 490 (L?); Mattingly 1956a: 44 (lectotype designation). Etymology: Gede, near Mombasa, Kenya.

 

CITED REFERENCES

Edwards, F.W. (1935a). Mosquito notes. XII. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 26(2), 127–136.

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

Hopkins, G.H.E. (1952). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region: Larval bionomics of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae (2nd ed., Vol. 1). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

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 Neoc- ulex, Culiciomyia, Mocthogenes, Culex). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series A: General Entomology, 31(4–6), 37–44.

Rickenbach, A., Eouzan, J.-P., Ferrara, L., & Bailly-Choumara, H. (1976). Données nouvelles sur la presence, la frequence et la repartition des Toxorhynchitinae et Culicinae (Diptera, Culicidae) au Cameroun. 2. Genres Eretmapodites et Culex. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 14(2), 93–100.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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