Darsie Richard F, Day Jonathan F
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, 200 9th Street SE, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA.
J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 2007 Jun;23(2):95-8. doi: 10.2987/8756-971X(2007)23[95:ROTPOC]2.0.CO;2.
The pupa of Culex restuans is redescribed in detail with a chaetotaxal table and a full illustration. The chaetotaxy of the pupa of Cx. restuans is compared with that of Cx. nigripalpus, the primary vector of St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile virus in Florida.