Culex quinquefasciatus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: disturbed areas

Ecology: The transmitting agent of avian malaria is the mosquito. The most prevalent mosquito transmitting avian malaria in Hawaii is Culex quinquefasciatus, though a number of other mosquitoes have been found to harbour the parasite in experiments.

Biology

Reproduction

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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Culex acer Walker • Culex aestuans Wiedemann • Culex aikenii Dyar & Knab • Culex albolineatus Giles • Culex anxifer Bigot • Culex aseyehae Dyar & Knab • Culex autumnalis Weyenbergh • Culex barbarus Dyar & Knab • Culex cartroni Ventrillon • Culex christophersii Theobald • Culex cingulatus Doleschall • Culex cubensis Bigot • Culex didieri Neveu-Lemaire • Culex fatigans Wiedemann • Culex fouchowensis Theobald • Culex hensemaeon Dyar • Culex luteoannulatus Theobald • Culex macleayi Skuse • Culex minor Theobald • Culex nigrirostris Enderlein • Culex pallidocephala Theobald • Culex penafieli Sanchez • Culex pungens Wiedemann • Culex pygmaeus Neveu-Lemaire • Culex quasilinealis Theobald • Culex quasipipiens Theobald • Culex raymondii Tamayo • Culex reesi Theobald • Culex revocator Dyar & Knab • Culex sericeus Theobald • Culex serotinus Philippi • Culex skusii Giles • Culex trillineatus Theobald

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Culex

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. pipiens (Northern House Mosquito) · C. quinquefasciatus (Southern House Mosquito) · C. tarsalis (Western Encephalitis Mosquito)

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Further Reading

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Notes

Contributors

• BDWD: BioSystematic Database of World Diptera. Release date: February 6, 2009
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• ISSG Global Invasive Species Database (http://www.issg.org/database)
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Thomson, Christian (from Diptera).

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2614859
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Dip-59839
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 126490
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 17609

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