Culex (Culex) argenteopunctatus, Ventrillon.
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Culex (Culex) argenteopunctatus, Ventrillon. |
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Culex (Culex) argenteopunctatus, Ventrillon. View in CoL
Heptaphlebomyia argenteopunctata, Ventrillon, Arch. Parasit. ix, p. 44 6 (1905).
Heptaphlebomyia kingi, Theobald, Ann. Trop. Med. vii, p. 60 1 (1913).
A number of females, all in poor condition, some barely recognisable, from Tananarive (Ventrillon, Bouet, Guirin M6neville, Waterlot).
A male in the British Museum named by Ventrillon lacks the abdomen, but fortunately there is another, in perfect condition, from the Gold Coast (Dr. A. Ingram). I have mounted the hypopygium of this and find t h a t it is a true Culex bearing a rather considerable resemblance to C. decens, Theo. The two silvery spots on the thorax are remarkable and absolutely diagnostic, being comparable only with certain species of Aedes , e.g., punctoihorads, Theo.
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