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Revalidation of Phalangomyia Dyar & Knab as a subgenus of Culex L. (Diptera: Culicidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence

  • 1. Instituto de Entomología, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile.
  • 2. Laboratorio de Entomología, Sub-departamento de Genética Molecular, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Santiago, Chile. creyes@ispch.cl; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5554-1953
  • 3. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores. (CEPAVE), CCT Conicet, La Plata, UNLP. La Plata, Argentina. gustavo@cepave.edu.ar, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1942-9857
  • 4. Departamento de Ciencias Básicas y Tecnológicas, Universidad Nacional de Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina. & mlaurito@conicet.gov.ar; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6846-5029 & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET, Argentina. & *Corresponding author. mlaurito@conicet.gov.ar

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González, Christian R., Reyes-Valenzuela, Carolina, Rossi, Gustavo C., Laurito, Magdalena (2023): Revalidation of Phalangomyia Dyar & Knab as a subgenus of Culex L. (Diptera: Culicidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence. Zootaxa 5256 (6): 544-564, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5256.6.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5256.6.2

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