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Culex (Melanoconion) amitis Komp 1936

Description

9. amitis Komp, 1936:333 (M).

Lectotype M: Quiriquire (near Maturin), (Monagas), Venezuela (NMNH).

Distribution in South America: Venezuela.

Bibliographic sources: Known life stages and taxonomic contributions registered in Pecor et al. (1992). Geographical records in Forattini et al. (1973); Sutil (1980) and Del Ventura et al. (2013).

Notes

Published as part of Torres-Gutierrez, Carolina & Sallum, Maria Anice Mureb, 2015, Catalog of the subgenus Melanoconion of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) for South America, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4028 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289703

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMNH
Scientific name authorship
Komp
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Culex
Species
amitis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Culex (Melanoconion) amitis Komp, 1936 sec. Torres-Gutierrez & Sallum, 2015

References

  • Komp, W. H. W. (1936) Description of nine new species of Culex, seven from Panama and two from Venezuela (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 29, 319 - 334. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 29.2.319
  • Pecor, J. E., Mallampali, V. L., Harbach, R. E. & Peyton, E. L. (1992) Catalog and illustrated review of the subgenus Melanoconion of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 27, 1 - 228.
  • Forattini, O. P., Rabello, E. X. & Cotrim, M. D. (1973) Catalogo das colecoes entomologicas da Faculdade de Saude Publica da Universidade de Sao Paulo - Culicidae. Revista de Saude Publica, 7, 453 - 4 79.
  • Sutil, E. (1980) Enumeracion historica y geografica de las especies de Culicidae de Venezuela ordenadas segun su taxonomia. Division de endemias rurales - direccion de malariologia y saneamiento ambiental, Ministerio de Sanidad y Asistencia Social, Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela, 37 pp.
  • Del Ventura, F., Liria, J. & Navarro, J. C. (2013) Determinacion de areas de endemismo en mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) en Venezuela, mediante criterios explicitos de optimizacion. Boletin de Malariologia y Salud Ambiental, 53, 165 - 182.