Culex (Culex) edwardsi Barraud, 1923

NATARAJAN, R., GOPALAKRISHNAN, S., SHRIRAM, A. N. & KUMAR, ASHWANI, 2024, Mosquitoes in crabholes: A hidden realm of culicid diversity in India, Zootaxa 5437 (3), pp. 397-412 : 402

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.5

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scientific name

Culex (Culex) edwardsi Barraud, 1923
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Distribution. Tamil Nadu: Anamalai, Nilgiri Hills (Western Ghats). Non-mangrove.

Habitat dependence. Transient—Larvae only. Larvae were collected in spring pools and stream pools, but were also found in crabholes, muddy pools, paddy fields and slow-running streams.

Reference. Tyagi et al. (2016).

Barraud, P. J. (1923) Two new species of Culex (Diptera, Culicidae) from Assam. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 11 (2), 507 - 509.

Tyagi, B. K., Munirathinam, A. & Vengatesh, A. (2016) An inventory of the authentically identified and classified mosquito taxa in the ' CRME Museum', with annotations on its significance in taxonomic research in India. International Journal of Mosquito Research, 3 (4), 58 - 113.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Culicidae

Genus

Culex