Toxorhynchites purpureus

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: Ankylorhynchus
Species: Toxorhynchites purpureus

Name

Toxorhynchites purpureus (Theobald, 1901)

Basionym

Megarhinus purpureus Theobald, 1901

Synonymy

Ankylorhynchus violaceus Peryassú, 1908

Distribution

Brazil, Uruguay

References

• Dyar, H. G. 1928. The mosquitoes of the Americas. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication, No. 387. Washington, DC, 616 pp.
• Lane, J. 1953. Neotropical Culicidae, Volume I. São Paulo, Brazil, 548 pp.
• Peryassú, A. G. 1908. Os culicideos do Brazil. Instituto de Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 407 pp.
• Rossi, G. C. and M. Martínez. 2003. [Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from Uruguay]. Entomología y Vectores 10: 469–478.
• Theobald, F. V. 1901. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. Volume I. London, 424 pp.