An Evaluation of Characters for the Separation of Two Culex Species (Diptera: Culicidae) Based on Material From the Upper Midwest
| Autor: | Nicholas B Thrun, Lílian Ferreira-de-Freitas, Lauren Melidosian, Lyric C. Bartholomay, Bradley J Tucker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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AcademicSubjects/SCI01382
Culex viruses Minnesota Zoology Culex restuans Mosquito Vectors Biology Wisconsin Species Specificity occipital erect scales Genus morphology parasitic diseases Culex pipiens Animals Adult stage Research Articles Larva Culex pipiens s.l fungi General Medicine biology.organism_classification character reappraisal Sympatric speciation Insect Science Key (lock) Female Illinois |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Insect Science |
| ISSN: | 1536-2442 |
| Popis: | Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Culex pipiens complex play a key role in the transmission and therefore epidemiology of a number of human and animal pathogens globally. These mosquitoes, and sympatric species of the genus Culex Linnaeus that are not within the Cx. pipiens complex, are often considered ‘impossible’ to distinguish by morphology in the adult female stage. In the United States, this is particularly true for Culex pipiens s.l. and Culex restuans Theobald, both of which are competent vectors of West Nile virus, but likely play different roles in the transmission cycle. Therefore, we undertook an in-depth morphological evaluation of matched larval exuviae and adult specimens that revealed five useful morphological characters that are informative to distinguish Cx. pipiens s.l. from Cx. restuans in the adult stage. Herein, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature on these species of interest, and four additional, morphologically similar, Culex species, and a proposed key to adult female specimens. |
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