Culex (Melanoconion) oedipus, Root, 1927: 588

Torres-Gutierrez, Carolina & Sallum, Maria Anice Mureb, 2015, Catalog of the subgenus Melanoconion of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) for South America, Zootaxa 4028 (1), pp. 1-50 : 25

87. oedipus Root, 1927: 588 (M).

Lectotype M: Magé , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ( NMNH).

Distribution in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Eastern Republic of Uruguay, Ecuador.

Bibliographic sources: Known life stages and taxonomic and geographical references in Pecor et al. (1992). Redescription of the species in Forattini & Sallum (1987a) with full description of adults and immature stages. Ecological studies with records of this species can be found in Forattini et al. (1981; 1986a, b; 1987a,b; 1989a,b; 1990; 1993b,c).

Additional geographical records in Lourenço de Oliveira (1984); Lourenço de Oliveira et al. (1986); Forattini et al. (1988); Rossi (1996, 2000, 2002); Rossi et al. (2002b); Gomes et al. (2008); Ramos (2009); Dantur-Juri et al. (2012); Laporta (2012); Ribeiro et al. (2012); Sant’Ana (2013); Rossi (2014).