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Culex quinquefasciatus

Southern house mosquito

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Sean McCann, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) (iNaturalist)

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Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1919

First collected

1968

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Culex quinquefasciatus, most mentions first.

  1. 2007

  2. 2024

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2024: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2024

    A natural history survey of North Halawa Valley, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Cultural and Environmental Sciences 5, 84 pp

    Polhemus, D.A., Howarth, F.G.& Miller, S.E. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2002

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2000. Part 2: notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2002

    A review of the insects and related arthropods of Midway Atoll

    Nishida, G.M.& J.W. Beardsley · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 2001

    NOWRAMP 2000 Terrestrial arthropod report

    Nishida, G.M. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 2000

    Biodiversity of freshwater and estuarine communities in lower Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced species

    Englund, R.A., D.J. Preston, R. Wolff, S.L. Coles, L.G. Eldredge & K. Arakaki · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 2000

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Two centuries of collecting

1910s1960s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1919 by Bryan, Jr., E.H. (Honolulu). The Museum last collected it in 1968; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as October 27, 2026.

Alive today

940 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild since 2000. Most recent first.