Female of Culex renatoi (Photo: Stein et al. 2018).
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Chaco
Corrientes
Entre Ríos
Misiones
Tucumán
Other distribution
Antigua and Barbuda, Brazil
Synonyms
Sin registros/no records .
Observations
"Not listed from Argentina by Knight & Stone (1977)." (Mitchell & Darsie, 1985).
Habitat and breeding sites
Larvae have been collected on water held by terrestrial bromeliads and the axil of Eryngium sp. with larvae of Culex castroi (Campos, 2010; Alvarez et al., 2024).
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MICIELI, M. V., GARCÍA, J. J., BECNEL, J. J. 2000. Life cycle and description of Amblyospora camposi n. sp. (Microsporidia: Amblyosporidae) in the mosquito Culex renatoi (Diptera, Culicidae) and the copepod Paracyclops fimbriatus fimbriatus (Copepoda, Cyclopidae). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 47 (6): 575-580.
MICIELI, M. V., MARTI, G. A., GARCÍA, J. J., TRANCHIDA, M. C., BECNEL, J. J. 2007. Epizootiological studies of Amblyospora camposi (Microsporidia: Amblyosporidae) in Culex renatoi (Diptera: Culicidae) and Paracyclops fimbriatus fimbriatus (Copepoda: Cyclopidae) in a bromeliad habitat. Journal of Invertebrates Pathology 94 (1): 31-37.
ROSSI, G. C., HARBACH, R. E. 2008. Phytotelmatomyia, a new Neotropical subgenus of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae). Zootaxa 1879: 1-17.
CAMPOS, R. E. 2010. Eryngium (Apiaceae) phytotelmata and their macro-invertebrate communities, including a review and bibliography. Hydrobiologia 652 (1): 311-328.
ROSSI, G. C. 2015. Annotated checklist, distribution, and taxonomic bibliography of the mosquitoes (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) of Argentina. Check List 11 (4): 1712.
STEIN, M., ALVAREZ, C. N., ALONSO, A. N., BANGHER, D. N., WILLENER, J. A., CAMPOS, R. E. 2018. New records of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) found in phytotelmata in Northern Argentina. Zootaxa 4399 (1): 87-100.
DANTUR JURI, M. J., VILLARROEL MARTÍNEZ, E. I., DUQUE, P. L., STEIN, M., MUREB SALLUM, M. A. 2022. New records of mosquitoes in Bolivia and Northwestern Argentina. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 38 (4): 276-279.
ALVAREZ, C. N., CAMPOS, R. E., STEIN, M. 2024. Phytotelmata in native and exotic plants and their mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) assemblages: Diversity and first records of plant-mosquito associations in a subtropical region of Argentina. Ecología Austral 34: 496-511. https://doi.org/10.25260/EA.24.34.3.0.2373.