Culex ( Microculex ) retrosus Lane & Whitman, 1951

Culex ( Microculex) retrosus Lane & Whitman, 1951 View in CoL

Culex ( Microculex) retrosus Lane & Whitman, 1951: 356 View in CoL ( imitator View in CoL subspecies; ♂, ♀, Pe, Le). Holotype in USNM. Type locality: Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara , Brazil.

Belkin et al. 1971: 26 (ty. info.); Xavier 1973 (ty. info.).

Male genitalia ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 ): Tergum IX lobes semicircular, similar to those of Cx. imitator although with varying semicircular shape; each lobe with 35 simple setae in the apical area; distance between lobes equal to basal width. Gonocoxite oblong, similar to that of Cx. imitator . Distal division of subapical lobe with continuous set of similar setae occupying ventromesal surface to the base of the columnar process. Columnar process with 2 evident, strong, filiform setae ( a and b) with pointed apices, seta a inserted basal to seta b. Slender gonostylus, slightly curved, tapering towards apex, with broad, leaf-like gonostylar claw with pointed apex. Aedeagus with sclerotized dorsolateral process; ventral process with pointed apex; apical process strongly sclerotized, convex and pointed. Proctiger with elongate, somewhat triangular tergum X, apical process broad; basal process pointed. Paraproct elongate. Crown with 8 simple, pointed, curved blades.

Distribution: Brazil.

Material examined: 23 ♂ G. SP-PR66; SP-PR65; RJ-STA27; RJ-STA135; SP-BG101; SP-PR-110; RJ-STA39; SP-EC89; SP-EC84; SP-PR57; SP-PR72; SP-PR76; SP-MRC28; SP-VL/APA27; SP-PR80; SP-PR77; SP-EC118; SP-PR81; SP-CANT41; SP-EC117; SP-PR54; SP-J/5; SP-PR46.