{"title":"Description of the larva and pupa of Culex (Melanoconion) dureti Casal & Garcia and redescription of the adult male (Diptera: Culicidae)","authors":"Débora N. Bangher, W. Almirón, Marina Stein","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5443.2.7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Culex (Melanoconion) dureti Casal & García, 1968 was described based on the adult male. In this article, we describe and illustrate the pupa and the fourth-instar larva and provide a redescription of the adult male. Diagnostic characters of the male genitalia and fourth-instar larva are also provided to separate Cx. dureti from closely related species. Possible phylogenetic relationships of the immature stages of the Inhibitator Group are discussed. Information on distribution and bionomics of the species is also provided. The female remains unknown.","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zootaxa","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5443.2.7","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ZOOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Culex (Melanoconion) dureti Casal & García, 1968 was described based on the adult male. In this article, we describe and illustrate the pupa and the fourth-instar larva and provide a redescription of the adult male. Diagnostic characters of the male genitalia and fourth-instar larva are also provided to separate Cx. dureti from closely related species. Possible phylogenetic relationships of the immature stages of the Inhibitator Group are discussed. Information on distribution and bionomics of the species is also provided. The female remains unknown.
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Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed international journal for rapid publication of high quality papers on any aspect of systematic zoology, with a preference for large taxonomic works such as monographs and revisions. Zootaxa considers papers on all animal taxa, both living and fossil, and especially encourages descriptions of new taxa. All types of taxonomic papers are considered, including theories and methods of systematics and phylogeny, taxonomic monographs, revisions and reviews, catalogues/checklists, biographies and bibliographies, identification guides, analysis of characters, phylogenetic relationships and zoogeographical patterns of distribution, descriptions of taxa, and nomenclature. Open access publishing option is strongly encouraged for authors with research grants and other funds. For those without grants/funds, all accepted manuscripts will be published but access is secured for subscribers only.