Classification within the cosmopolitan genus Culex (Diptera: Culicidae): The foundation for molecular systematics and phylogenetic research

Acta Tropica

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Harbach, Ralph E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Culex; Infrasubgeneric categories; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

ACALLEOMYIA; ACALLYNTRUM; AEDINUS; ALLIMANTA; ANOEDIOPORPA; BARRAUDIUS; BELKINOMYIA; CARROLLIA; CULEX; CULICIOYIA; EUMELANOMYIA; FLY; GENUS; KITZMILLERIA; LASIOSIPHON; LOPHOCERAOMYIA; MAILLOTIA; MELANOCONION; MICRAEDES; MICROCULEX; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NEOCULEX; NICAROMYIA; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; OCULEOMYIA; PHENACOMYIA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOTELMATOMYIA; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SIRIVANAKARNIUS; SUBSPECIES; TINOLESTES; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CULEX; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 80052087435     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.06.005     Document Type: Review

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