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List of Culex species

This is a list of described Culex species around the world, as of 2006. Subspecies have been omitted. There are possibly errors and inaccuracies in this list that stem from the conversion from the source. Please check the original source when in doubt.

Subgenus Acalleomyia Leicester

Subgenus Acallyntrum Stone & Penn

Subgenus Aedinus Lutz

Subgenus Afroculex Danilov

Subgenus Allimanta Casal & Garcia

Subgenus Anoedioporpa Dyar

Subgenus Barraudius Edwards

Subgenus Belkinomyia Adames & Galindo

  • Culex eldridgei <small>Adames & Galindo, 1973</small> — Colombia

Subgenus Carrollia Lutz

  • Culex anduzei <small>Cerqueira & Lane, 1944</small> — Brazil
  • Culex antunesi <small>Lane & Whitman, 1943</small> — Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guiana
  • Culex monaensis <small>Floch & Fauran, 1955</small>
  • Culex babahoyensis <small>Levi-Castillo, 1953</small> — Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua
  • Culex bihaicola <small>Dyar & Nunez Tovar, 1927</small> — Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela
  • Culex bonnei <small>Dyar, 1921</small> — Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Suriname, French Guiana
  • Culex cerqueirai <small>Valencia, 1973</small> — Panama
  • Culex guerreroi <small>Cova Garcia, Sutil, & Pulido, 1971</small> — Venezuela
  • Culex infoliatus <small>Bonne-Wepster & Bonne, 1919</small> — Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex insigniforceps <small>Clastrier & Claustre, 1978</small> — French Guiana
  • Culex iridescens <small>(Lutz, 1905)</small> — Brazil
  • Culex kompi <small>Valencia, 1973</small> — Colombia
  • Culex metempsytus <small>Dyar, 1921</small> — Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama
  • Culex rausseoi <small>Cova Garcia, Sutil & Pulido, 1972</small> — Venezuela
  • Culex secundus <small>Bonne-Wepster & Bonne, 1919</small> — Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama
  • Culex soperi <small>Antunes & Lane, 1937</small> — Argentina, Brazil
  • Culex urichii <small>(Coquillett, 1906)</small> — Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
  • Culex mathesoni <small>Anduze, 1942</small>
  • Culex wannonii <small>Cova Garcia & Sutil Oramus, 1976</small> — Venezuela
  • Culex wilsoni <small>Lane & Whitman, 1943</small> — Brazil, Colombia

Subgenus Culex Linnaeus

Subgenus Phalangomyia Dyar & Knab, 1914

  • Culex apicinus <small>Philippi, 1865</small> — Bolivia, Chile, Peru

Subgenus Culiciomyia Theobald

Subgenus Eumelanomyia Theobald

  • Culex acrostichalis <small>Edwards, 1941</small> — Uganda, Zaire
  • Culex adami <small>(Hamon & Mouchet, 1955)</small> — Cameroon
  • Culex adersianus <small>Edwards, 1941</small> — Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania
  • Culex albertianus <small>Edwards, 1941</small> — Kenya, Zaire
  • Culex albiventris <small>Edwards, 1922</small> — Cambodia, Central African Republic, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda
  • Culex inconspicuosa <small>Theobald, 1909</small>
  • Culex amaniensis <small>Van Someren & Hamon, 1964</small> — Tanzania
  • Culex andreanus <small>Edwards, 1927</small> — Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Zaire
  • Culex baisasi <small>Sirivanakarn, 1972</small> — Philippines
  • Culex bokorensis <small>Klein & Sirivanakarn, 1969</small> — Cambodia
  • Culex brenguesi <small>Brunhes & Ravaonjanahary, 1973</small> — Madagascar
  • Culex brevipalpis <small>(Giles, 1902)</small> — Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Culex fidelis <small>Dyar, 1920</small>
  • Culex longipes <small>Theobald, 1901</small>
  • Culex macropus <small>Blanchard, 1905</small>
  • Culex uniformis <small>Leicester, 1908</small>
  • Culex calabarensis <small>Edwards, 1941</small> — Nigeria
  • Culex campilunati <small>Carter & Wijesundara, 1948</small> — Sri Lanka
  • Culex castor <small>de Meillon & Lavoipierre, 1944</small> — Zaire
  • Culex castrensis <small>Edwards, 1922</small> — India, Sri Lanka
  • Culex nigrescens <small>Theobald, 1907</small>
  • Culex cataractarum <small>Edwards, 1923</small> — Papua New Guinea, Philippines
  • Culex tricontus <small>Delfinado, 1966</small>
  • Culex chauveti <small>Brunhes & Rambelo, 1968</small> — Madagascar, Comoros
  • Culex femineus <small>Edwards, 1926</small> — Vanuatu
  • Culex fimbriforceps <small>Edwards, 1935</small> — Cameroon, Uganda, Zaire
  • Culex foliatus <small>Brug, 1932</small> — China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Culex chiyutoi <small>Baisas, 1935</small>
  • Culex chungkiangensis <small>Chang & Chang., 1974</small>
  • Culex shrivastavii <small>Wattal, Kalra, & Krishnan, 1966</small>
  • Culex galliardi <small>Edwards, 1941</small> — Gabon, Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zaire
  • Culex garioui <small>Bailly-Choumara & Rickenbach, 1966</small> — Cameroon
  • Culex germaini <small>Geoffroy, 1974</small> — Central African Republic
  • Culex gudouensis <small>Chang, Zhao, Hang & Chen, 1975</small> — China
  • Culex hackeri <small>Edwards, 1923</small> — Malaysia
  • Culex hamoni <small>Brunhes, Adam, & Bailly-Choumara, 1967</small> — Congo
  • Culex hayashii <small>Yamada, 1917</small> — China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan
  • Culex helenae <small>Brunhes Adam, & Bailly-Choumara, 1967</small> — Cameroon
  • Culex hinglungensis <small>Chu, 1957</small> — Cambodia, China, Philippines, Thailand
  • Culex culionicus <small>Delfinado, 1966</small>
  • Culex horridus <small>Edwards, 1922</small> — Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Comoros, Zaire
  • Culex fusca <small>Theobald, 1909</small> — Burkina Faso, Cameroon
  • Culex inconspicuosus <small>(Theobald, 1908)</small> — Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Zaire
  • Culex insignis <small>(Carter, 1911)</small> — Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Zaire
  • Culex iphis <small>Barraud, 1924</small> — India
  • Culex jefferyi <small>Sirivanakarn, 1977</small> — Malaysia
  • Culex kanyamwerima <small>Van Someren, 1951</small> — Uganda
  • Culex khazani <small>Edwards, 1922</small> — India
  • Culex kilara <small>Van Someren, 1951</small> — Uganda
  • Culex kingianus <small>Edwards, 1922</small> — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, Zaire
  • Culex kiriensis <small>Klein & Sirivanakarn, 1969</small> — Cambodia, Thailand
  • Culex laplantei <small>Hamon, Adam, & Mouchet, 1955</small> — Cameroon
  • Culex latifoliatus <small>Delfinado, 1966</small> — Philippines
  • Culex laureli <small>Baisas, 1935</small> — Philippines
  • Culex macrostylus <small>Sirivanakrn & Ramalingam, 1976</small> — Malaysia
  • Culex malayensis <small>Sirivanakarn, 1972</small> — Malaysia
  • Culex malayi <small>(Leicester, 1908)</small> — Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar (Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam)
  • Culex aedes <small>Leicester, 1908</small>
  • Culex nigrescens <small>Theobald, 1907</small>
  • Culex manusensis <small>Sirivnakarn, 1975</small> — Papua New Guinea
  • Culex megafolius <small>Chen & Dong, 1992</small> — China
  • Culex miaolingensis <small>Chen, 1982</small> — China
  • Culex mijanae <small>Brunhes, Adam, & Bailly-Choumara, 1967</small> — Cameroon
  • Culex mohani <small>Sirivanakarn, 1977</small> — India
  • Culex mundulus <small>Gruenberg, 1905</small> — Nigeria
  • Culex nyangae <small>Galliard, 1931</small> — Gabon
  • Culex okinawae <small>Bohart, 1953</small> — Japan, Philippines, Taiwan
  • Culex lini <small>Lien, 1968</small>
  • Culex oresbius <small>Harbach & Rattanarithikul, 1988</small> — Thailand
  • Culex orstom <small>Brunhes, Adam, & Bailly-Choumara, 1967</small> — Congo
  • Culex otachati <small>Klein & Sirivanakarn, 1969</small> — Cambodia, Thailand
  • Culex phangngae <small>Sirivanakarn, 1972</small> — Thailand
  • Culex pluvialis <small>Barraud, 1924</small> — India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka
  • Culex pseudoandreanus <small>Bailly-Choumara, 1965</small> — Cameroon
  • Culex quintetti <small>Brunhes, Adam, & Bailly-Choumara, 1967</small> — Angola, Côte d'Ivoire
  • Culex richardgarciai <small>Jeffery, Oothuman & Rudnick, 1987</small> — Malaysia
  • Culex richei <small>Klein, 1970</small> — Cambodia
  • Culex rima <small>Theobald, 1901</small> — Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zaire
  • Culex koumbai <small>Galliard, 1931</small>
  • Culex rubinotus <small>Theobald, 1906</small> — Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaire
  • Culex selai <small>Klein & Sirivanakarn, 1969</small> — Cambodia, Malaysia
  • Culex simplicicornis <small>Edwards, 1930</small> — Malaysia
  • Culex simpliciforceps <small>Edwards, 1941</small> — Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sudan, Uganda, Zaire
  • Culex stellatus <small>Van Someren, 1947</small> — Seychelles
  • Culex subrima <small>Edwards, 1941</small> — Cameroon, Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Zaire
  • Culex sunyaniensis <small>Edwards, 1941</small> — Cameroon, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan
  • Culex tauffliebi <small>Geoffroy & Herve, 1976</small> — Central African Republic
  • Culex tenuipalpis <small>Barraud, 1924</small> — India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
  • Culex uncinatus <small>Delfinado, 1966</small> — Philippines
  • Culex vattieri <small>Geoffroy, 1971</small> — Central African Republic
  • Culex vinckei <small>Hamon, Holstein, & Rivola, 1957</small> — Côte d'Ivoire, Zaire
  • Culex wansoni <small>Wolfs, 1945</small> — Zaire
  • Culex wigglesworthi <small>Edwards, 1941</small> — Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Comoros, Zaire
  • Culex yeageri <small>Baisas, 1935</small> — Philippines

Subgenus Kitzmilleria Danilov

  • Culex moucheti <small>Evans, 1923</small> — Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, Zaire

Subgenus Lasiosiphon KirkPatrick

Subgenus Lophoceraomyia Theobald

Subgenus Maillotia Theobald

Subgenus Melanoconion Theobald

  • Culex pedroi <small>Sirivanakarn & Belkin, 1980</small> — Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex penai <small>Sirivanakarn, 1979</small> — Bolivia, Ecuador
  • Culex pereyrai <small>Duret, 1967</small> — Brazil, Paraguay
  • Culex peribleptus <small>Dyar & Knab, 1917</small>
  • Culex phlabistus <small>Dyar, 1920</small> — Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana
  • Culex phlogistus <small>Dyar, 1920</small> — Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Suriname, Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex phyllados
  • Culex pifanoi <small>Anduze, 1948</small> — Venezuela
  • Culex pilosus <small>(Dyar & Knab, 1906)</small> — Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, French Guiana
  • Culex plectoporpe <small>Root, 1927</small> — Brazil, Panama, French Guiana
  • Culex portesi <small>Senevet & Abonnenc, 1941</small> — Brazil, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex pose <small>Dyar & Knab, 1917</small>
  • Culex productus <small>Senevet & Abonnenc, 1939</small> — Brazil, French Guiana
  • Culex psatharus <small>Dyar, 1920</small> — Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama
  • Culex pseudotaeniopus <small>Galindo & Blanton, 1954</small>
  • Culex putumayensis <small>Matheson, 1934</small> — Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana
  • Culex quadrifoliatus <small>Komp, 1936</small> — Panama
  • Culex quasihibridus <small>Galindo & Blanton, 1954</small> — Colombia, Panama
  • Culex rabanicola <small>Floch & Abonnenc, 1946</small> — French Guiana
  • Culex rabelloi <small>Forattini & Sallum, 1987</small> — Argentina, Brazil
  • Culex rachoui <small>Duret, 1968</small> — Brazil
  • Culex radiatus <small>Senevet & Abonnenc, 1939</small>
  • Culex reductor <small>Dyar & Knab, 1909</small>
  • Culex ribeirensis <small>Forattini & Sallum, 1985</small> — Brazil
  • Culex ronderosi <small>De Linero, 1967</small> — Venezuela
  • Culex rooti <small>Rozeboom, 1935</small> — Argentina, Belize, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela
  • Culex rorotaensis <small>Floch & Abonnenc, 1946</small> — Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana
  • Culex ruffinis <small>Dyar & Shannon, 1924</small>
  • Culex sacchettae <small>Sirivanakarn & Jacob, 1981</small> — Brazil
  • Culex saramaccensis <small>Bonne-Wepster & Bonne., 1919</small> — Ecuador, Suriname, French Guiana
  • Culex sardinerae <small>Fox, 1953</small> — Guatemala, Panama, Puerto Rico
  • Culex seneveti <small>Clastrier, 1970</small>
  • Culex serratimarge <small>Root, 1927</small> — Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex silvai <small>Duret, 1968</small> — Brazil
  • Culex simulator <small>Dyar & Knab, 1906</small> — Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
  • Culex spathulatus <small>Forattini & Sallum, 1987</small> — Brazil
  • Culex spinifer
  • Culex spiniformis
  • Culex spissipes <small>(Theobald, 1903)</small> — Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex sursumptor <small>Dyar, 1924</small> — Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela
  • Culex symbletos <small>Sallum & Hutchings, 2003</small> — Brazil, Peru
  • Culex taeniopus <small>Dyar & Knab, 1907</small> — Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, French Guiana
  • Culex tecmarsis <small>Dyar, 1918</small> — Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela
  • Culex terebor <small>Dyar, 1920</small> — Suriname
  • Culex terepaima <small>Anduze, 1948</small>
  • Culex theobaldi <small>(Lutz, 1904)</small> — Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex thomasi <small>Evans., 1924</small>
  • Culex tosimus <small>Dyar,</small>
  • Culex tournieri <small>Senevet & Abonnenc, 1939</small> — French Guiana
  • Culex tovari <small>Evans, 1924</small>
  • Culex trachycampa <small>Dyar & Knab, 1909</small>
  • Culex trifidus <small>Dyar, 1921</small> — Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama
  • Culex trigeminatus <small>Clastrier, 1970</small> — Brazil, French Guiana
  • Culex trilobulatus <small>Duret & Barreto, 1956</small> — Brazil
  • Culex trisetosus <small>Fauran, 1961</small> — French Guiana
  • Culex unicornis <small>Root, 1928</small> — Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex vapulans <small>Dyar, 1920</small>
  • Culex vaxus <small>Dyar, 1920</small>
  • Culex venezuelensis <small>Anduze, 1948</small>
  • Culex vexillifer <small>Komp, 1936</small> — Belize, Honduras, Panama
  • Culex vidali <small>Floch & Fauran, 1954</small> — French Guiana
  • Culex vogelsangi <small>Anduze, 1948</small>
  • Culex vomerifer <small>Komp, 1932</small> — Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex wepsterae <small>Komp & Rozeboom, 1951</small> — Suriname
  • Culex xivylis <small>Dyar, 1920</small>
  • Culex ybarmis <small>Dyar, 1920</small> — Brazil, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana
  • Culex zabanicus
  • Culex zeteki <small>Dyar, 1918</small> — Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana

Subgenus Micraedes Coquillett

Subgenus Microculex Theobald

Subgenus Neoculex Dyar

Subgenus Nomina Dubia

Subgenus Oculeomyia Theobald

Subgenus Lasioconops Theobald

Subgenus Phenacomyia Harbach & Peyton

Subgenus Sirivanakarnius Tanaka

Subgenus Tinolestes Coquillett

Uncertain subgenus

Extinct species

  • †Culex ekaterinae
  • †Culex erikae
  • †Culex flavus
  • †Culex malariager
  • †Culex protorhinus
  • †Culex vectensis
  • †Culex winchesteri
  • †Culex tanzaniae (Nomen Dobium)

References

External links

on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site