Culex perfuscus
(Culex perfuscus)
Description
Culex perfuscus is the only Culex species mosquito currently implicated as a possible vector of Zika virus. The species type was described in 1914 from Port Herald, Nyasaland by entomologist Frederick Wallace Edwards.
Taxonomic tree:
Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Culicidae
Genus:Culex
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