| Culex restuans | |
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| An adult male Cx. restuans resting on a flowering plant | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Culex |
| Subgenus: | Culex |
| Species: | C. restuans
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| Binomial name | |
| Culex restuans Theobald, 1901
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Culex restuans is a species of mosquito known to occur in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Bahamas.[1][2] It is a disease vector for St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile virus.[3] In 2013 West Nile Virus positive specimens were collected in Southern California.[4][5]
- ^ Strickman, D.; Darsie, R. F. Jr. (1988). "The previously undetected presence of Culex restuans (Diptera: Culicidae) in Central america, with notes on identification". Mosquito Systematics. 20 (1): 21–27.
- ^ "Culex restuans Theobald, 1901 | Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (WRBU)". www.wrbu.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- ^ "Culex restuans". www.wrbu.org. The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit. Retrieved 2018-11-24.
- ^ Sandhu TS, Williams GW, Haynes BW, Dhillon MS. Population dynamics of blood-fed female mosquitoes and comparative efficacy of resting boxes in collecting them from the northwestern part of Riverside County, California. J Global Infect Dis [serial online] 2013 [cited 2013 Oct 22];5:15-8.
- ^ Sandhu TS, Williams GA, Haynes BW, Dhillon MS. Evaluation of arboviral activity at Northwest Mosquito and Vector Control District, Riverside County, California during 2008. Proc and Papers of the Mosq and Vector Control Assoc of Calif, vol 77, 2009. p. 108-15.