Culex perexiguus, Theobald, 1903

Ebejer, Martin J. & Gatt, Paul, 2021, A checklist of the Diptera (Insecta) of the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 5018 (1), pp. 1-75 : 16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5018.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:45A315F6-0168-49D8-BA7B-C1853FF7F21E

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039687DE-FFA2-FFA6-49CE-BA8C2CFBFBC3

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Culex perexiguus
status

 

perexiguus Theobald, 1903 View in CoL

quinquefasciatus Say , 18235

fatigans Wiedemann, 1828 View in CoL , synonym theileri Theobald, 1903 View in CoL

Subgenus Maillotia Theobald, 1907

hortensis Ficalbi, 1889

Culiseta Felt, 1904

Subgenus Allotheobaldia Brolemann, 1919

longiareolata (Macquart, 1838)

Uranotaenia Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1891

Subgenus Pseudoficalbia Theobald, 1912

unguiculata Edwards, 1913

1. The genus Anopheles was last recorded from Malta (as A. maculipennis ) in 1943 ( Bernard 1945) and is presumed extinct. It is possible that this record actually refers to a sibling species in the A. maculipennis complex, A. labranchiae , which was recorded from Malta by Stojanovich & Scott (1997).

2. The generic classification of the Aedini follows Wilkerson et al. (2015).

3. This species has not been recorded since Zetterstedt (1850) and Bezzi & de Stefani-Perez (1897), and is presumed extinct.

4. Based on a single reference in the medical literature ( Gatt 1996). Although the species was widespread in the Mediterranean in the early part of the 20th century and could therefore have occurred in Malta, there is no compelling evidence that it did.

5. Recorded as its synonym C. fatigans Wiedemann, 1928 , which is a misidentification or misinterpretation ( Gatt 1996), as this is a tropical and subtropical species not known from the West Mediterranean.

DIXIDAE

Literature: Ebejer (2000).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Culicidae

Genus

Culex

Loc

Culex perexiguus

Ebejer, Martin J. & Gatt, Paul 2021
2021
Loc

Maillotia

Theobald 1907
1907
Loc

theileri

Theobald 1903
1903
Loc

fatigans

Wiedemann 1828
1828
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