Culex perfuscus is the only Culex species mosquito currently implicated as a possible vector of Zika virus.[1] The species type was described in 1914 from Port Herald, Nyasaland by entomologist Frederick Wallace Edwards.[2][3]
^Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Culex » Culex » perfuscus Edwards" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=17002, accessed 21 Feb 2016.
^Edwards, F. W. 1914. New African Culicidae in the British Museum, with Notes on the Genitalia of some African Culex. Bulletin of Entomological Research, V(1): 63-81; 71; http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19141000168.html.
Culexperfuscus is the only Culex species mosquito currently implicated as a possible vector of Zika virus. The species type was described in 1914 from...
species of Aedes, along with Anopheles coustani, Mansonia uniformis, and Culexperfuscus, although this alone does not incriminate them as vectors. To detect...