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Culex (Melanoconion) plectoporpe Root 1927
Description
103. plectoporpe Root, 1927: 589 (M).
Lectotype M: Bangu district, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (NMNH).
Distribution in South America: Argentina, Brazil, French Guiana.
Bibliographic sources: Taxonomic and geographical references in Pecor et al. (1992). Forattini & Sallum (1987a) fully redescribed the adults and immatures stages o the species; and provided notes on bionomics. Ecological notes about this species can be found in Forattini et al. (1981; 1987b; 1989a,b; 1991; 1993a,b,c). Additional geographical records in Lourenço de Oliveira (1984); Lourenço de Oliveira et al. (1986); Forattini et al. (1988); Stein et al. (2004); Ramos (2009); Sugimoto (2009).
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 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289703
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NMNH
- Family
- Culicidae
- Genus
- Culex
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Root
- Species
- plectoporpe
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Culex (Melanoconion) plectoporpe Root, 1927 sec. Torres-Gutierrez & Sallum, 2015
References
- Root, F. M. (1927) Studies on Brazilian mosquitoes. III. The genus Culex. American Journal of Hygiene, 7, 574 - 598.
- 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. & Sallum, M. A. M. (1987 a) Studies on some species of Culex (Melanoconion) with the description of a new one from southern Brazil (Diptera: Culicidae). Revista de Saude Publica, 21, 123 - 156. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0034 - 89101987000200006
- Forattini, O. P., Gomes, A. C., Santos, J. L. F., Bianchi, E. A., Rabello, E. X. & Natal, D. (1981) Observacoes sobre atividade de mosquitos Culicidae em mata residual no Vale do Ribeira, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Revista de Saude Publica, 15, 557 - 586. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0034 - 89101981000600001
- Stein, M., Amiron, W. R., Willener, J. A. & Gorodner, J. (2004) Variacion temporal de formas inmaduras de mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) en la provincia del Chaco. Documento tecnico Universidad Nacional del Nordeste - comunicaciones cientificas y tecnologicas, B- 043.
- Ramos, D. G. (2009) Aspectos ecologicos de Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) marajoara e outros Culicidae na ilha comprida, estado de Sao Paulo (Dissertacao Mestrado). Faculdade de Saude Publica da USP, Sao Paulo, 123 pp.
- Sugimoto, R. S. (2009) Variacoes da fauna de mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) em area de implantacao de uma hidreletrica no Rio Paranapanema, SP / PR (Dissertacao de Mestrado). Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Saude Publica da USP, 108 pp.