Toxorhynchites aeneus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Culicoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Nematocera Infraordo: Culicomorpha Superfamilia: Culicoidea

Familia: Culicidae
Subfamilia: Culicinae
Tribus: Toxorhynchitini
Genus: Toxorhynchites
Subgenus: Afrorhynchus
Species: Toxorhynchites aeneus

Name

Toxorhynchites aeneus (Evans, 1926)

Basionym

Megarhinus aeneus Evans, 1926

Distribution

Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Zaire

References

• Doucet, J. 1960. Moustiques forestiers de la Republique de Cote-d'Ivoire. I. Notes biologiques et systematiques sur Uranotaenia henrardi Edwards, Eretmapodites oedipodius marcellei Hamon, Aedes (Pseudarmigeres) argenteoventralis Theobald. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique 53: 810–814.
• Evans, A. M. 1926. Notes on Freetown mosquitos, with Descriptions of new and little-known species. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 20: 97–108.
• Ribeiro, H. 1992. Research on the mosquito subfamily Toxorhynchitnae (Diptera: Culicidae). II. Description of the afrotropical subgenus Afrorhynchus subgen. nov. Mosquito Systematics 23: 195–198.
• Wolfs, J. 1947. Description des larves et des nymphes de quelques megarhines. M. phytophagus Theobald, M. viridibasis Edwards, et M. aeneus Evans. Recueil des Travaux de Sciences Médicales au Congo Belge 6: 63–72.