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    Culex pipiens is the type species for the genus Culex. Culex pipiens includes two morphologically indistinguishable forms, Culex pipiens form pipiens...
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    The London Underground mosquito, Culex pipiens f. molestus, is a form of mosquito. It is named for its biting of people sleeping in the London Underground...
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    has media related to Culex. Wikispecies has information related to Culex. On the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site Culex pipiens at MetaPathogen: facts...
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    and West Nile virus. It is taxonomically regarded as a member of the Culex pipiens species complex. Its genome was sequenced in 2010, and was shown to...
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    humans, to the common house mosquito (Culex pipiens). Among other differences in their biology, Culex pipiens prefers larger breeding waters and is more...
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    the most significant for viral transmission are Culex species that feed on birds, including Culex pipiens, C. restuans, C. salinarius, C. quinquefasciatus...
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    including Aedes aegypti, A. vexans, A. albopictus, Anopheles sinensis, Culex pipiens, Aedes communis, Anopheles stephensi, C. quinquefasciatus, C. tritaeniorhynchus...
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    the United States, Culex pipiens (Eastern United States, and urban and residential areas of the United States north of 36–39°N), Culex tarsalis (Midwest...
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    fevers; it has been shown, however, that some mosquito species, including Culex pipiens, take nectar from tansy flowers. Tansy can be used as in companion planting...
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    particularly Culex pipiens. For example, a 2008–2009 survey of mosquitoes and birds in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy detected USUV in 89 C. pipiens pools...
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    1095-8649.1988.tb05463.x. Vinogradova, Elena Borisovna (2000). Culex pipiens pipiens mosquitoes: taxonomy, distribution, ecology, physiology, genetic...
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    sexes. As antennal fibrillae are used by female C. pipiens to locate hosts to feed on, male C. pipiens utilize them to locate female mates.[citation needed]...
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    autumn to early spring together with females of genus Culex (Culex pipiens, Culex torrentium, and Culex territans). Fauna Europaea Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal...
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  • 1889 Culex pinarocampa Dyar & Knab, 1908 — Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758 — Argentina, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada,...
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    important Culex mosquito, Cx pipiens. A paper published in 2020 addresses the lack of reliable distinguishing characters between Cx. pipiens and restuans...
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    "Piercing and sucking mouth parts sensilla of irradiated mosquito, Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) with gamma radiation". Scientific Reports. 12 (1):...
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    2001). "Locomotion through use of the mouth brushes in the larva of Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae)". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series...
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    Mosquitoes. 1. Age Dependence of Copulation and Insemination in the Culex pipiens Complex and Aedes taeniorhynchus in the Laboratory". Annals of the Entomological...
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    northern Europe, overwintering females are found in caves together with Culex pipiens, Culex torrentium, and Culiseta annulata. Larvae can be found in clean ponds...
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  • local above-ground Culex pipiens, although more recent evidence suggests that it is a southern mosquito variety related to Culex pipiens that has adapted...
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  • civ (Hebr., cv), 31, and known under the familiar name of mosquito, Culex pipiens, is taken in the New Testament as an example of a trifle. Goat — Though...
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    1971). "New hypothesis of the cause of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Culex pipiens L". Nature. 232 (5313): 657–658. Bibcode:1971Natur.232..657Y. doi:10...
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    caspius, Aedes mcintosh, Aedes ochraceus, Culex pipiens, Culex antennatus, Culex perexiguus, Culex zombaensis and Culex quinquefasciatus. Contact with infected...
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    incidentally transmitted to people from the bites of Culex mosquitos, especially Culex pipiens. Viruses that cause viral encephalitis first infect the...
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  • County, Oregon in a group of Culex pipiens mosquitoes. The viral host is the Passer domesticus bird with the vectors being Culex mosquitoes. According to...
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    sphaericus crystal toxin in the brush border membrane of the mosquito Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae)". Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 29...
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    species is very similar to Culex pipiens. The most reliable characteristics for distinguishing Culex torrentium from Culex pipiens are found in males, namely...
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    "Forty Years of Erratic Insecticide Resistance Evolution in the Mosquito Culex pipiens". PLOS Genetics. 3 (11): e205. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030205. ISSN 1553-7390...
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    2002). "Repellent activities of essential oils and monoterpenes against Culex pipiens pallens". Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 18 (4):...
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    Combined Effect of Methyl Salicylate And trans-Cinnamaldehyde Against Culex pipiens pallens". Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 30 (3):...
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