Culex (Culex) nigripalpus Theobald, 1901

Cooper, David, Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki, Macdonald, David, Nanova, Olga, Yudin, Viktor, Dugmore, Andrew & Kitchener, Andrew, 2020, Taxonomy, ecology and distribution of the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Dutch Leeward Islands, with a key to the adults and fourth instar larvae, Contributions to Zoology 89 (1), pp. 373-392 : 383

Culex (Culex) nigripalpus Theobald, 1901

Culex nigripalpus has been recorded for the first time from the Dutch Leeward Islands in our survey at two localities on Sint Maarten (2 ♀, 1 ♂, Rolandus Channel, 18°01’53.9“ N, 63°02’17.7” W, April 20th, 2018; 1 ♀, Belvedere, 18°03’26.9“ N, 63°02’14.4” W, April 20th, 2018, next to an open drain and small pond).

When Van der Kuyp sampled the Rolandus Channel in the late 1940s, Cx. nigripalpus was not observed ( Van der Kuyp, 1953, 1954), but Cx. habilitator was recorded at this locality. The larvae of that species look very similar to those of Cx. nigripalpus . Therefore, Cx. nigripalpus may have been present during Van der Kuyp’s inventory but was misidentified as Cx. habilitator .