Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus is a species of mosquito belonging to the genus Culex. It is found in China, India,[1] Indonesia and Sri Lanka[2][3] They are natural predators of disease causing mosquito larva such as Aedes aegypti, Anopheles subpictus, and Culex tritaeniorhynchus.[4]
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| Species: | Culex fuscanus Wiedemann, 1820
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References
edit- ^ "Invasion of the predatory mosquito Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus in the western desert parts of Rajasthan, India". National Institute of Malaria Research. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ "An annotated checklist of mosquitoes of Sri Lanka" (PDF). Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ "Species Details : Culex bahri (Edwards, 1914)". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ Surendran, SN; Jude, PJ; Thavaranjit, AC; Eswaramohan, T; Vinobaba, M; Ramasamy, R (2013). "Predatory efficacy of Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus on mosquito vectors of human diseases in Sri Lanka". Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 29 (2): 168–70. doi:10.2987/12-6321R.1. PMID 23923332. S2CID 760413.