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5--LIST OF THE ANGOLAN SPECIES, SUBSPECIES AND FORMS
In the establishment of the list of the Angolan members of genus
Culex L., both our unpublished data and all published contributions
available to us were taken into account.
The basic systematic arrangement and taxonomic treatment followed
by the writers in this paper is that of the World Catalog by Stone, Knight
and Starcke (17) [including the Supplements (18) (19) (20) (21) and Corrections
by Stone (22)], with the modifications introduced in the new edition
by Knight & Stone (23). In a few instances, however, we adopted a somewhat
divergent taxonomic treatment, as it will be mentioned under the
corresponding taxa (see under C. annulioris, C. invidiosus, C. nebulosus,
C. simpsoni, C. univittatus and also C. pipiens).
On the other hand, some more recent taxonomic contributions by
other Authors will be also confronted with the available evidence from
Angola (see under C. pruina and C. univittatus).
Some corrections made on the previously reported list of Culex species
from Angola (see under 2), namely by treating C. annulioris and C.
univittatus as monotypic species, lead to shorten it to only 34 members.
On the other hand, it is established that the nominal subspecies of the
polytypic C. trifilatus and C. tritaeniorhynchus are those occurring in
Angola.
Lastly, the list of the Angolan members of genus Culex L., as it
is shown in Table 1, is now thought to comprise 47 names, 13 of which
are here recorded for the first time in the country. From the viewpoint
of the geographical distribution, our knowledge on the genus in Angola
is also considerably extended with, on the whole, 447 new locality records
(Table 1).
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