The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Diptera

(Mosquitoes & Flies)

CULICIDAE

Culex restuans Theobald

White Dotted Mosquito


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Synonyms: 

 

 

 

Distribution Citations

1940 Fisk & Levan
1943 McGregor & Eads
1944 Randolf & O'Neill
1949 McCleskey

1950 Buxton
1950 Rueger & Druce
1951 Eads Menzies & Ogden
1952 Buxton & Breland
[1953 Breland]
1954 Breland
[1955 Carpenter & LaCasse]
1956 Harmstrom et al. in
         Ward 1964
1957 Eads & Strom
1957 Long
1958 Hill Smittle Philips

[1963 Dodge]
1965 Eddleman
[1965 Wiseman]

 

[1981 Darsie & Ward]
1989 Fournier et al. in
         Duhrkopf 1994

1990 Moore et al.
1994 Duhrkopf

2005 Bradoford et al.
2005 Darsie & Ward

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-First Texas Record reported by McGregor & Eads (1943)

-breeds throughout the year (McGregor & Eads 1943)

-resistant to desiccation (Buxton & Breland 1952)

-larvae in shaded tubid waters with large amounts of organic matter (Long 1957)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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