Culex crinicauda

Culex crinicauda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Culex
Species:
C. crinicauda
Binomial name
Culex crinicauda
Synonyms

Culex parvus Taylor, 1912

Culex crinicauda is a species of mosquito in the genus Culex.[2] It is found in northern Australia and breeds in fresh, clear ground water and large containers.[3]

Description

A small to medium-sized mosquito, C. crinicauda is mainly pale with a banded proboscis.[3] Palps black, proboscis black but with a narrow white band. Scutal integument brown with narrow brown and bronze scales. Scutellum and pronotum pale. Abdominal tergites are black with straight, creamy basal banding, sternites are pale. Tibiae are mainly dark, femora somewhat mottled, and tarsi basally banded. Wings dark.[3]

References

  1. ^ Edwards, F. W. (1921). "Mosquito Notes.—II". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 12: 69–80 [77]. doi:10.1017/S0007485300044874.
  2. ^ "Culex (Culex) crinicauda Edwards, 1921". bie.ala.org.au.
  3. ^ a b c Liehne, Peter (1991). An Atlas of the Mosquitoes of Western Australia. Health Dept. of WA. pp. 225–226. ISBN 0730946355.
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