| Culex perfuscus | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Culex |
| Species: | C. perfuscus
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| Binomial name | |
| Culex perfuscus
Edwards, 1914
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Culex perfuscus is the only Culex species mosquito currently implicated as a possible vector of Zika virus. [1] The species type was described in 1914 from Port Herald, Nyasaland by entomologist Frederick Wallace Edwards. [2] [3]
Bionomics
Culex perfuscus have been collected in a variety of sites in forest habitat, including springs containing green algae, foul pools, shaded residual pools, the bed of a temporary stream, the edge of a slow-flowing river, and water in the bottom of an old canoe. [4]
Culex perfuscus occurs in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Zaire), Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar (including Glorioso and Juan de Nova islands), Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan and South Sudan, and Uganda. [2]
Medical importance
Zika virus has been detected in Culex perfuscus, although at a very low level, and no ability to transmit it was documented. [1]
References
- ^ a b Diallo, D; Sall, AA; Diagne, CT; Faye, O; Faye, O; Ba, Y; Hanley, KA; Buenemann, M; Weaver, SC; Diallo, M (2014). "Zika virus emergence in mosquitoes in southeastern Senegal, 2011". PLOS ONE. 9 (10): e109442. Bibcode: 2014PLoSO...9j9442D. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109442. PMC 4195678. PMID 25310102.
- ^ a b Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Culex » Culex » perfuscus Edwards" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=17002, accessed 21 Feb 2016.
- ^ Edwards, F. W. 1914. New African Culicidae in the British Museum, with Notes on the Genitalia of some African Culex. Bulletin of Entomological Research, V(1): 63-81; 71; http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19141000168.html.
- ^ G. H. E. Hopkins. 1952. Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region I – Larval Bionomics of Mosquitoes and Taxonomy of Culicine Larvae, London: Bernard Quaritch. Second Edition. Pp. 324-326; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/062200-0.pdf Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine.
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| Culex perfuscus | |
|---|---|
|
Scientific classification
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Culex |
| Species: | C. perfuscus
|
| Binomial name | |
| Culex perfuscus
Edwards, 1914
| |
Culex perfuscus is the only Culex species mosquito currently implicated as a possible vector of Zika virus. [1] The species type was described in 1914 from Port Herald, Nyasaland by entomologist Frederick Wallace Edwards. [2] [3]
Bionomics
Culex perfuscus have been collected in a variety of sites in forest habitat, including springs containing green algae, foul pools, shaded residual pools, the bed of a temporary stream, the edge of a slow-flowing river, and water in the bottom of an old canoe. [4]
Culex perfuscus occurs in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Zaire), Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar (including Glorioso and Juan de Nova islands), Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan and South Sudan, and Uganda. [2]
Medical importance
Zika virus has been detected in Culex perfuscus, although at a very low level, and no ability to transmit it was documented. [1]
References
- ^ a b Diallo, D; Sall, AA; Diagne, CT; Faye, O; Faye, O; Ba, Y; Hanley, KA; Buenemann, M; Weaver, SC; Diallo, M (2014). "Zika virus emergence in mosquitoes in southeastern Senegal, 2011". PLOS ONE. 9 (10): e109442. Bibcode: 2014PLoSO...9j9442D. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109442. PMC 4195678. PMID 25310102.
- ^ a b Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Culex » Culex » perfuscus Edwards" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=17002, accessed 21 Feb 2016.
- ^ Edwards, F. W. 1914. New African Culicidae in the British Museum, with Notes on the Genitalia of some African Culex. Bulletin of Entomological Research, V(1): 63-81; 71; http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19141000168.html.
- ^ G. H. E. Hopkins. 1952. Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region I – Larval Bionomics of Mosquitoes and Taxonomy of Culicine Larvae, London: Bernard Quaritch. Second Edition. Pp. 324-326; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/062200-0.pdf Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine.
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