Culex elegans is a species of mosquitoes in the subfamily Culicinae. Insectoid.info treats the name as a separated species, whereas Encyclopedia of Life lists it as a synonym for Aedes aegypti. Ian Macdonald described it in 1899 as not associated with malaria.[2]
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It is described from Italy and Spain.
References
edit- ^ Notizie preventive sulle zanzare Italiane. V. Nota preventiva (1) Descrizione di una specie nuova. Zanzara elegante, Culex elegans, n. sp. Ficalbi, Eugenio (1889), Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana. XXI, pages 95–100
- ^ MacDonald, I (1899). "Mosquitos in Relation to Malaria". British Medical Journal. 2 (2020): 699. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2020.699. PMC 2412234. PMID 20758666.
External links
edit- Culex elegans at Encyclopedia of Life
- Culex elegans at insectoid.info
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