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List of Culex species

List of Culex species is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of Culex species rather than just read about it. In short: This is a list of described Culex species around the world, as of 2006. Subspecies have been omitted.

List of Culex species — main illustration
List of Culex species — illustration

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Reference excerpt

This is a list of described Culex species around the world, as of 2006. Subspecies have been omitted. There are possibly errors and inaccuracies in this list that stem from the conversion from the source. Please check the original source when in doubt.

Subgenus Acalleomyia Leicester Culex obscurus (Leicester, 1908) — Indonesia, Malaysia

Subgenus Acallyntrum Stone & Penn Culex axillicola Steffan, 1979 — Papua New Guinea Culex belkini Stone & Penn, 1948 — Solomon Islands Culex bicki Stone & Penn, 1947 — Indonesia Culex binigrolineatus Knight & Rozeboom, 1945 — Indonesia Culex bougainvillensis Steffan, 1979 — Solomon Islands Culex miyagii Mogi & Toma, 1999 — Indonesia Culex pallidiceps (Theobald, 1905) — Papua New Guinea Culex perkinsi Stone & Penn, 1948 — Solomon Islands

Subgenus Aedinus Lutz Culex accelerans Root, 1927 — Brazil, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana Culex amazonensis (Lutz, 1905) — Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana Culex clastrieri Casal & Garcia, 1968 — Brazil Culex guyanensis Clastrier, 1970 — French Guiana Culex hildebrandi Evans, 1923 Culex paraplesia Dyar, 1922 Culex tapena Dyar, 1919

Subgenus Afroculex Danilov Culex lineata (Theobald, 1912) — Mozambique, South Africa

Subgenus Allimanta Casal & Garcia Culex tramazayguesi Duret, 1954 — Argentina

Subgenus Anoedioporpa Dyar Culex bamborum Rozeboom & Komp, 1948 — Colombia Culex belemensis Duret & Damasceno, 1955 — Brazil, French Guiana Culex bifoliata Dyar, 1922 Culex browni Komp, 1936 — Colombia, Panama Culex canaanensis Lane & Whitman, 1943 — Brazil Culex chaguanco Casal, Garcia, & Fernandez, 1968 — Argentina Culex chalcocorystes Martini, 1914 Culex conservator Dyar & Knab, 1906 — Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Lesser Antilles Culex corrigani Dyar & Knab, 1907 — Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama Culex damascenoi Duret, 1969 — Brazil Culex divisior Dyar & Knab, 1906 Culex luteopleurus (Theobald, 1903) — Brazil Culex menui Clastrier, 1971 — French Guiana Culex originator Gordon & Evans, 1922 — Brazil, Grenada, French Guiana Culex paganus Evans, 1923 — Brazil, Venezuela Culex quasioriginator Duret, 1972 — Brazil Culex restrictor Dyar & Knab, 1906 — Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama Culex surukumensis Anduze, 1941

Subgenus Barraudius Edwards Culex modestus Ficalbi, 1889 — Algeria, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom Culex eadithae Barraud, 1924 Culex nudipalpis Shingarev, 1927 Culex tanajcus Stschelkanovzev, 1926 — Japan, Korea Culex pusillus Macquart, 1850 — Algeria, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan Culex richeti Brunhes & Venhard, 1966 — Nigeria

Subgenus Belkinomyia Adames & Galindo Culex eldridgei Adames & Galindo, 1973 — Colombia

Subgenus Carrollia Lutz Culex anduzei Cerqueira & Lane, 1944 — Brazil Culex antunesi Lane & Whitman, 1943 — Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guiana Culex monaensis Floch & Fauran, 1955 Culex babahoyensis Levi-Castillo, 1953 — Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua Culex bihaicola Dyar & Nunez Tovar, 1927 — Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela Culex bonnei Dyar, 1921 — Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Suriname, French Guiana Culex cerqueirai Valencia, 1973 — Panama Culex guerreroi Cova Garcia, Sutil, & Pulido, 1971 — Venezuela Culex infoliatus Bonne-Wepster & Bonne, 1919 — Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, French Guiana Culex insigniforceps Clastrier & Claustre, 1978 — French Guiana Culex iridescens (Lutz, 1905) — Brazil Culex kompi Valencia, 1973 — Colombia Culex metempsytus Dyar, 1921 — Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama Culex rausseoi Cova Garcia, Sutil & Pulido, 1972 — Venezuela Culex secundus Bonne-Wepster & Bonne, 1919 — Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama Culex soperi Antunes & Lane, 1937 — Argentina, Brazil Culex urichii (Coquillett, 1906) — Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela Culex mathesoni Anduze, 1942 Culex wannonii Cova Garcia & Sutil Oramus, 1976 — Venezuela Culex wilsoni Lane & Whitman, 1943 — Brazil, Colombia

Subgenus Culex Linnaeus

Subgenus Phalangomyia Dyar & Knab, 1914 Culex apicinus Philippi, 1865 — Bolivia, Chile, Peru

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Illustrations

List of Culex species: C. peccator
C. peccator
List of Culex species: Illustration of a Culex damnatorum type specimen in lateral view. Wasatchian, Early Eocene; Lake Gosiute, Green River Formation; Fossil Fish Cut,3–4 kilometres (1.9–2.5 mi) West of Green River, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Illustration of a Culex damnatorum type specimen in lateral view. Wasatchian, Early Eocene; Lake Gosiute, Green River Formation; Fossil Fish Cut,3–4 kilometres (1.9–2.5 mi) West of Green River, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
List of Culex species: Culex malariager, infected with the malarial parasite Plasmodium dominicana, in 15–20 million year old Dominican amber
Culex malariager, infected with the malarial parasite Plasmodium dominicana, in 15–20 million year old Dominican amber

Worked examples

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of Culex species ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of Culex species

In research
List of Culex species appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses List of Culex species in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
List of Culex species is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Culex, Lists of flies, Lists of insect species, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for List of Culex species outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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What is List of Culex species in simple terms?

This is a list of described Culex species around the world, as of 2006. Subspecies have been omitted.

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