Catalog of the subgenus Melanoconion of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) for South America Author Torres-Gutierrez, Carolina Author Sallum, Maria Anice Mureb text Zootaxa 2015 2015-10-07 4028 1 1 50 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.1.1 19283c46-0f5f-457b-ab0c-1e6c8fdd9b36 1175-5326 289703 31CA1483-9A4B-4B31-AC85-DD574C7FAB25 95. pedroi Sirivanakarn & Belkin, 1980: 12 (M, F, L, P). Holotype M: Juan Mina (0.5 km S of Rio Chagres ), Canal Zone , Panama ( NMNH ). Distribution in South America : Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru , Republic of Suriname, Venezuela. Type locality: Juan Mina (0.5 km S of Rio Chagres), Canal Zone, Panama. Bibliographic sources: Important references in Pecor et al. (1992) . This species was included in the Revision of the Spissipes Section by Sallum & Forattini (1996) , with notes on bionomics and distribution. Some ecological notes can be found in Forattini et al. (1981 ; 1986a , b ; 1987a,b; 1989a,b; 1991; 1993b,c; 1995). Additional geographical records in Dickerman et al. (1986); Gomes et al. (1987) ; Luz & Lourenço de Oliveira (1996) ; Souto et al. (1996) ; Pecor et al. (2000) ; Turrell et al. (2000 ; 2005, 2006, 2008); Mendez et al. (2001) ; Moncayo et al. (2001) ; Salas et al. (2001) ; Barrera et al. (2002) ; Hutchings et al. (2002 , 2005 , 2008 , 2010, 2011, 2013); Rossi et al. (2002b) ; Ferro et al. (2003 , 2008 ); Jones et al. (2004) ; O’Guinn et al. (2004) ; Navarro & Weaver (2004) ; Alfonzo et al. (2005) ; Yanoviak et al. (2005) ; Kondig et al. (2007) ; Barreto et al. (2008) ; Johnson et al. (2008) ; Barbosa et al. (2008) ; Santos-Neto & Lozovei (2008) ; Tissot & Silva (2008) ; Nunes et al. (2009) ; Suarez-Mutis et al. (2009) ; Guedes (2010) ; Confalonieri & Costa-Neto (2012) ; Dantur-Juri et al. (2012) ; Laporta (2012) ; Parra-Henao & Suárez (2012) ; Ribeiro et al. (2012) ; Del Ventura et al. (2013) ; Sá & Sallum (2013) ; Sant’Ana (2013) ; Andrews et al. (2014) ; Chaves et al. (2014) ; Guedes & Navarro-Silva (2014) ; Lawrence et al. (2014) . Additional comments: Sallum & Forattini (1996) documented important bibliographic references indicating this species as vector of Eastern equine encephalitis virus in Brazil and Trinidad ( Vasconcelos et al. 1991 ), as well as of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus and other viruses in Panama ( Galindo et al. 1966 , Galindo & Srihongse, 1967 , Srihonge and Galindo 1967 ). In addition, Ferro et al . (2003) stated that this species was one of three enzootic vectors of an active focus of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE - subtype ID) in Colombia . Similarly, the contributions by Turrell et al. (2005, 2006) reported isolations of eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus, two subtypes (Brazil-Peru and Panama-Argentina subtypes) from Cx. pedroi mosquitoes collected from the Amazon Basin in Peru . Turrell et al . (2008) also reported this species as primary enzootic vector of eastern equine encephalitis virus in the Amazon Basin of Peru .