Culex rajah is a species of mosquito in the genus Culex. It is endemic to Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. C. rajah is placed in the subgenus Culiciomyia. In its larval stage, C. rajah is found exclusively in the pitchers of Nepenthes rajah (hence the name), a species of pitcher plant. As such, it is considered a nepenthebiont.[1]
^Tsukamoto, M. 1989. "Two New Mosquito Species from a Pitcher Plant of Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia: Culex rajah and Toxorhynchites rajah (Diptera: Culicidae)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022.. Japanese Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene17(3): 215–228.
Culexrajah is a species of mosquito in the genus Culex. It is endemic to Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. C. rajah is placed in the subgenus Culiciomyia. In...
nepenthebionts. N. rajah has two such mosquito taxa named after it: Culexrajah and Toxorhynchites rajah. Another key feature of N. rajah is the relative...
Examples include Culexrajah and Toxorhynchites rajah, which are named after Nepenthes rajah, as well as the related species Culex jenseni and Uranotaenia...
Culex jenseni is a species of mosquito in the genus Culex. It is endemic to Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. C. jenseni is placed in the subgenus Lophoceraomyia...
source when in doubt. Culex obscurus (Leicester, 1908) — Indonesia, Malaysia Culex axillicola Steffan, 1979 — Papua New Guinea Culex belkini Stone & Penn...
at £3.3s per plant, while the famous giant-pitchered N. northiana and N. rajah were selling for £2.2s. Nepenthes bicalcarata plants are the largest in...
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