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Issue: Vol. 4858 No. 4: 2 Oct. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-10-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.4.1
Page range: 451–506
Abstract views: 124
PDF downloaded: 7

New species of Culex (Culiciomyia) (Diptera: Culicidae) from Talangaye Forest in Cameroon and descriptions and identification keys for males of the Afrotropical species of the subgenus

Mosquito Control Research Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Nematology and Vector Genetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at Davis. 9240 South Riverbend Avenue, Parlier, CA 93648. USA.
Vector Borne Diseases Laboratory of the Applied Biology and Ecology Research Unit (VBID-URBEA), Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Dschang. PO Box 067, Dschang, Cameroon.
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Higher Institute of Environmental Science, PO Box 35460, Yaounde, Cameroon.
Vector Borne Diseases Laboratory of the Applied Biology and Ecology Research Unit (VBID-URBEA), Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Dschang. PO Box 067, Dschang, Cameroon.
Mosquito Control Research Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Nematology and Vector Genetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at Davis. 9240 South Riverbend Avenue, Parlier, CA 93648. USA.
Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA.
Diptera Culex apicopilosus Culex lanzaroi Culex pseudosubaequalis taxonomy

Abstract

Species of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) belonging to the subgenus Culiciomyia were collected in partially logged areas and in surrounding pristine forest (Talangaye Forest) in the Nguti Subdivision in the South-West Region of Cameroon. Mosquitoes were collected mainly by sweep netting through forest floor vegetation. Morphological species identification of African Culiciomyia relies almost exclusively on the structure of the male genitalia and the shapes of comb scales on the maxillary palpi of males. Other features of males and the habitus of females are largely indistinguishable between the species of this subgenus. In total, seven currently described species and three new species were collected in the forest. The males of the three new species are described and named as Culex apicopilosus Cornel & Mayi, sp. n., Culex lanzaroi Cornel & Mayi, sp. n. and Culex pseudosubaequalis Cornel & Mayi, sp. n. More detailed descriptions of males of the other currently known species that were collected in the Talangaye Forest and pictorial keys to the males of all Afrotropical species of Culiciomyia, including the new species, are provided.

 

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