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(
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Theobald
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subspecies
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<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA640A00FECDF833FEFA5DB1" bold="true" box="[270,363,1948,1972]" italics="true" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">eschirasi</emphasis>
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—original combination:
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var.
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(subspecific status by
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). Distribution:
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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(
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Wilkerson
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—original combination:
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<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA6B0A0FFCC2FF38FC195AAB" box="[769,904,151,175]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Culex pruina</emphasis>
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. Distribution:
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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(
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Wilkerson
<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA6B0A0FFDE2FF7AFDDF5AE9" box="[545,590,212,236]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">et al</emphasis>
. 2021
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, but not
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, see
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Simsaa
<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA6B0A0FFC6AFF7AFC475AE9" box="[937,982,212,236]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">et al</emphasis>
. 2021
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).
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With the exception of
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, subspecies
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<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA6B0A0FFD0DFEB5FCA25B31" box="[718,819,282,308]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">eschirasi</emphasis>
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has been recorded from eight of the 12 countries in which the
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form has been recorded. The larvae of the two forms, which are apparently sympatric, exhibit significant differences. The larva of the
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form was described by
<bibRefCitation id="FA234B2ABA6B0A0FFC50FECDFB3B5B79" author="Macfie, J. W. S. &amp; Ingram, A." box="[915,1194,354,381]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89" pagination="1 - 18" refId="ref167055" refString="Macfie, J. W. S. &amp; Ingram, A. (1916) New culicine larvae from the Gold Coast. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 7 (1), 1 - 18. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 000748530001703 X" type="journal article" year="1916">Macfie &amp; Ingram (1916)</bibRefCitation>
, and their description and illustrations of the head and terminal abdominal segments were utilized by
<bibRefCitation id="FA234B2ABA6B0A0FFBE6FE29FB405BA5" author="Hopkins, G. H. E." box="[1061,1233,390,416]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89" refId="ref160197" refString="Hopkins, G. H. E. (1936) Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region I. - Larval bionomics of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae. Printed by order of the Trustees, British Museum (Natural History), London, (vi) + 250 pp." type="book" year="1936">Hopkins (1936</bibRefCitation>
,
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), with little additional information.
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illustrated the terminal abdominal segments of
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and noted two major distinctions from the
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form.
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,
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) illustrated a longer siphon for
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and reiterated the differences between the two forms noted by
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. In the
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form, the posterior surface of the siphon between the pecten of either side is covered with microtrichium-like spicules (aculeae) whereas in subspecies
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the entire surface of the siphon, except narrowly at the base, is covered with aculeae. Both authors indicate that the integument of the thorax and abdominal segments IVII and part of VIII bears a dense covering of aculeae. Harbach
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. (2017) recorded the presence of thoracic and abdominal aculeae in
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, but they did not indicate which subspecific form was examined. Other differences noted in the descriptions and illustrations of the two forms include the following: Comb scales evenly fringed in
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whereas some scales are only fringed at the apex and on one side in the
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form; the siphonal setae (seta 1-S) are about 0.6 the diameter of the siphon in the former and about 0.5 the diameter in the latter; seta 1-X is short and single in
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and longer with three branches in the
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form; and the anal papillae are equally long in
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<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA6B0A0FFC4CFC99FC655955" box="[911,1012,822,848]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">eschirasi</emphasis>
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, slightly longer than the length of the saddle, whereas the dorsal and ventral papillae are unequal and the dorsal pair is slightly shorter than the length of the saddle in the
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form. The male genitalia of the typical form were partially described and illustrated by
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,
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1929
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, 1941). The genitalia of
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<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA6B0A0FFD76FC0DFC8B59B9" box="[693,794,930,956]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">eschirasi</emphasis>
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have not been illustrated, but
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noted that they look a little different than those of the
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form: “appendices chitineux du tube génital (mésosome) sont profondément divisés en deux” [lateral plates of the genital tube (aedeagus + lateral plates) are deeply split in two]. However,
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stated that he could not find any differences between the genitalia of the two forms. That aside, in view of the morphological distinctions of the larvae and the sympatry of the two forms, it is likely that
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is genetically distinct and should therefore be afforded specific status:
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(
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)
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<bibRefCitation id="FA234B2ABA6B0A0FFAF3FBF9FF5E5E91" author="Galliard, H." pageId="88" pageNumber="89" pagination="225 - 232" refId="ref156247" refString="Galliard, H. (1931) Culicides du Gabon. I. - Culicines, avec la description d'une espece et de deux varietes nouvelles. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 9 (3), 225 - 232. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / parasite / 1931093225" type="journal article" year="1931">Galliard, 1931</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA6B0A0FFF1EFBD5FE1B5E91" box="[221,394,1146,1172]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Culex eschirasi</emphasis>
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is currently listed as a species in the Encyclopedia of Life.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA6B0A0FFF04FB31FEC85EBD" box="[199,345,1182,1208]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Culex pruina</emphasis>
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has a single synonym,
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<emphasis id="ACC6EAC9BA6B0A0FFD9AFB30FCA15EBD" box="[601,816,1182,1209]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Cx. pallidothoracis</emphasis>
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(
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locality: Obuasi,
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,
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). Until topotypic larvae of this nominal species are available for examination,
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should remain a synonym of
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.
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