Culex fuscanus explained

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]

External links

• Prey and Feeding Behavior of Larval Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
• Anopheles indefinitus and Culex fuscanus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Saipan.
• Culex fuscanus (mosquito)
• A microsporidium of the predacious mosquito Culex fuscanus

Notes and References

1. Web site: Invasion of the predatory mosquito Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus in the western desert parts of Rajasthan, India . National Institute of Malaria Research . 3 February 2017.
2. Web site: An annotated checklist of mosquitoes of Sri Lanka . Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka . 3 February 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160625065751/http://thakshana.nsf.ac.lk/slstic/NA-81/NA_81.pdf . 25 June 2016 .
3. Web site: Species Details : Culex bahri (Edwards, 1914) . Catalogue of Life . 3 February 2017.
4. Predatory efficacy of Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus on mosquito vectors of human diseases in Sri Lanka. . Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 23923332 . 10.2987/12-6321R.1 . 29 . 2 . 168–70 . Surendran . SN . Jude . PJ . Thavaranjit . AC . Eswaramohan . T . Vinobaba . M . Ramasamy . R. 2013 . 760413.