Culex quinquefasciatus (Say, 1823)

Rogers, D. Christopher & Cruz-Rivera, Edwin, 2021, A preliminary survey of the inland aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Journal of Natural History 55 (13 - 14), pp. 799-850 : 832

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2021.1923850

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scientific name

Culex quinquefasciatus (Say, 1823)
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The southern tropical counterpart to C. pipiens , this species a part of a complex that is found nearly globally, and is known from the Virgin Islands ( Bram 1967; Kenney et al. 2017). We found larvae in stagnant water in the bottoms of recycle bins on the University of the Virgin Islands campus, St. Thomas, and in dense leaf litter in the wetland area at the Spring Road ghut springhead. Larvae were also found in ornamental bromeliad phytotelmata from Crown Bay Commercial Area east and west.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Culicidae

Genus

Culex

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