Culex mollis Dyar and Knab, 1906
Larval exuviae of Culex mollis (Photo: M. Laurito).
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- Misiones
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela.
- elocutilis Dyar and Knab
- equivocator Dyar and Knab Dyar and Knab
- lateropunctata Theobald
- lepostenis Dyar
- tisseuli Senevet
Not recorderd from Argentina by Knight & Stone (1997) (Mitchell & Darsie, 1985). The records of Culex mollis in different provinces should
be reviewed, given that species’ similarity to Culex tatoi (Rossi, 2015).
Disease relations: Specimens of Culex mollis were found naturally infected with the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus during 2005-2006 in Tucumán Province, Argentina (Pisano et al., 2010b).
be reviewed, given that species’ similarity to Culex tatoi (Rossi, 2015).
Disease relations: Specimens of Culex mollis were found naturally infected with the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus during 2005-2006 in Tucumán Province, Argentina (Pisano et al., 2010b).
Larvae of Culex mollis are primarily found in natural containers (holes in trees or rocks).
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- CAMPOS, R. E., MACIÁ, A. 1998. Culicidae. Cap. 28. En Morrone, J. J. & Coscarón, S. (Eds.) Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos: Una pespectiva biotaxonómica. (pp. 291-303). La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Sur.
- ROSSI, G. C., MARTÍNEZ, M. 2013. Lista de especies y clave ilustrada para la identificación de larvas de mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) halladas criando en recipientes artificiales en Uruguay. Boletín de la Sociedad Zoológica del Uruguay (2ª época) 22 (2): 49-65.
- LAURITO, M., ALMIRÓN, W. R., LUDUEÑA ALMEIDA, F. F. 2015. Discrimination of four Culex (Culex) species from the Neotropics based on geometric morphometrics. Zoomorphology. doi 10.1007/s00435-015-0271-x.
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