Culex fuscanus

Culex fuscanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Culicoidea
Family: Culicidae
Subfamily: Culicinae
Genus: Culex
Species: Culex fuscanus
Wiedemann, 1820

Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus is a species of mosquito belonging to the genus Culex. It is found in China, India,[1] Indonesia and Sri Lanka[2][3] They are natural predators of disease causing mosquito larva such as Aedes aegypti, Anopheles subpictus, and Culex tritaeniorhynchus.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Invasion of the predatory mosquito Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus in the western desert parts of Rajasthan, India". National Institute of Malaria Research. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "An annotated checklist of mosquitoes of Sri Lanka" (PDF). Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Species Details : Culex bahri (Edwards, 1914)". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  4. ↑ Surendran, SN; Jude, PJ; Thavaranjit, AC; Eswaramohan, T; Vinobaba, M; Ramasamy, R. "Predatory efficacy of Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus on mosquito vectors of human diseases in Sri Lanka". J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 29: 168–70. doi:10.2987/12-6321R.1. PMID 23923332.
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