Culex dunni Dyar, 1918
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
  • Argentina
    • Chaco
    • Corrientes
    • Formosa
    • Misiones
Other distribution
Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
 
  • exedrus Root
  • ruffinis Dyar and Shannon
Immature stages have been collected in natural ponds with transparent to light brown, stagnant water and varying temperature and pH. (23.5-31.3°C and pH between 5.90-7.56), partial shade with abundant floating vegetation (predominantly Pistia sp.), grasses, and occasionally with green algae (Bangher 2020). Larvae were collected together with Culex educator, Culex intrincatus, and Culex pilosus (Bangher 2020). Immatures have been also collected in a river with a very low water level with scarce or non-existent vegetation, with a predominance of grass leaves that breed on the river banks (Bangher 2020). The water was almost transparent brown in color with medium turbidity (24.7 °C and pH 6.15) (Bangher 2020).
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  • ROSSI, G. C. 2015. Annotated checklist, distribution, and taxonomic bibliography of the mosquitoes (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) of Argentina. Check List 11 (4): 1712.
  • BANGHER, D. N. 2020. Revisión sistemática de Culex (Melanoconion) Theobald (Diptera: Culicidae) en Argentina. Tesis Doctoral. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina.
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