Culex ( Microculex ) dubitans Lane & Whitman, 1951

Oliveira-Christe, Rafael & Marrelli, Mauro Toledo, 2025, Descriptions of the male genitalia of species of Culex (Microculex) (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Atlantic Forest, Brazil, and a dichotomous identification key for those species, Zootaxa 5717 (4), pp. 517-543 : 521

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5717.4.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17890924

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

Culex ( Microculex) dubitans Lane & Whitman, 1951: 357 View in CoL ( ♂ G, ♀, Pe, Le). Holotype in USNM. Type locality: Guanabara , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Belkin et al. 1971: (ty. loc. info.); Xavier, 1973: 159 (ty. info.).

Male genitalia ( Fig. 4): Tergum IX lobes semicircular with 3–7 simple setae; distance between lobes twice basal width. Gonocoxite oblong; subapical lobe with apically restricted setae; glabrous ventromesal surface. Columnar process with 2 evident, strong, filiform, apically pointed setae ( a and b) with seta a inserted basal to seta b. Gonostylus proportionally shorter, slightly curved, tapering towards apex, with broad, leaf-like gonostylar claw with pointed apex. Aedeagus with a dorsolateral process; pointed central process; apical process weakly sclerotized. Tergum X elongate, somewhat triangular, apical process broad; basal process pointed. Paraproct elongate; crown with 9 simple, pointed, curved blades.

Distribution: Brazil.

Material examined: 6 ♂ G. FSP-LESP-7175; SP-107EC; FSP-LESP-0815; FSP-LESP-71; FSP-LESP-7176; SP-VL/APA35.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Culicidae

Genus

Culex

Loc

Culex ( Microculex ) dubitans Lane & Whitman, 1951

Oliveira-Christe, Rafael & Marrelli, Mauro Toledo 2025
2025
Loc

Culex ( Microculex ) dubitans

Lane, J. & Whitman, L. 1951: 357
1951
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