Culex articulatus Rondani, 1872

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 100

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981039
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FFAE-FFC8-5889-FEE3FE2D6388
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Culex articulatus Rondani, 1872
status

Treatment

Culex articulatus Rondani, 1872 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1872a: 30.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Italia [ Italy]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 57): Culex Lin. / articulatus Rndn. / 3017; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUF: Box 57): Culex Lin. / articulatus Rndn. / 3017 / Mag. [May]; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 57): Culex Lin. / articulatus Rndn. / 3017 / Ott. [October]; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 57): Culex Lin. / articulatus Rndn. / 3017 / 19/8.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830) View in CoL ( Minář 1991: 91, Harbach 2018: 16).

REMARKS: Rondani (1872a: 30) included Culex articulatus as a new species in a key but did not provide a detailed description, number or length of the specimens but provided specific characters for the male. Six syntypes were found in this study.