Culex (Culex) pseudovishnui Colless, 1957

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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DOI

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scientific name

Culex (Culex) pseudovishnui Colless, 1957
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Distribution. Andhra Pradesh: Coringa-Gaderu canal; Karnataka: Kundapur District—Rajadi bridge. Mangrove.

Habitat dependence. Transient—Adults and larvae. Larvae are usually found in various types of freshwater habitats such as natural ground pools, canals, pools at stream margins and rice fields. It is one of the chief vectors of Japanese Encephalitis in different parts of India .

References. Rajavel et al. (2006 a, 2006b).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Culicidae

Genus

Culex

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