WRBU: Culex univittatus

Author

Theobald

1901c:29 (M*,F*)
Salisbury, Rhodesia (BM)

Distribution

Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Dahomey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Niger, South Africa, ?Spain, Middle East, ?Yemen, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

simplex
- Theobald 1903a:337 (F*; Heptaphlebomyia)
- Type-loc: Salisbury, Mashonaland, [Southern Rhodesia] (BM)
montforti
- Ventrillon 1905a:448 (M*, F; Heptaphleobmyia)
- Type-loc: Ankajobe, Madagascar (BM)
- White 1975: 321 (lectotype desig.)
- Townsend 1990:106 (type info.).
goughii
- Theobald 1911b:268 (syntype F* only)
- Type-loc: Onderstepoort, Transvaal (BM)
- White 1975:320 (tax.).

Bionomics

Larvae are found in ground pools, marshy pools, barrow pits, stagnant drains and streams, canals and shallow wells. Females feed on birds and mammals other than man (Sirivanakarn 1976).

Medical Importance

Vector of West Nile and Sindbis viruses (Sirivanakarn 1976).

Additional References

Edwards 1941:306 (M*, F*), 419 (P)
Hopkins 1952:291 (L*)
Mattingly and Knight 1956:104 (tax.)
Senevet, Andarelli, and Lieutaud 1957:52 (M*, tax.)
Jupp 1970:9 (M*, tax.)
Jupp 1971:339 (tax.)
Jupp 1972:103 (M*; tax.)
Gutsevich, Monchadsky and Stackelberg 1974:385 (M*, F, L*)
White 1975:316,320 (tax.; lectotype desig.; distr.)
Sirivanakarn 1976:48 (M*, F*, P ,L*;distr.)

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