The names of European mosqitoes: Part 7
Author
Keith Snow
text
European Mosqito Bulletin
2001
9
4
8
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.164887
82939e76-4ca6-4adb-b749-e27db9db12f5
1460-6127
164887
Culex pusillus
Macquart, 1850
Macquart, J.
(
1850
)
Dipteres exotiques
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ou pen connus. 4
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(1850) to the year 1849
.
Memoires
de la
Societe
des
sciences
,
de l'agricultme
et des arts de
Lille
,
309-479
.
Latin,
pusillus
=
tiny
This species
is
described briefly
in
Latin and French
on
page
313
from specimens collected in Egypt
. The general
morphological features
of
the female
are given
together with
a statement of
its length
: "
Long
. 1
Y
2I".
This is indicating that the length
was
IY
2
lignes
,
where
one
inch
(un pouce) = 12
lignes
.
In nineteenth
century
France
,
une ligne
= 0.225 cm
and
so
the specimen
desCIibed was
only
a
third of
a
centimetre in length which clearly
influenced
Macquart in his
choice of name, referring to it as "
tiny
••.