The Florida SLE Mosquito, Culex (Culex) nigripalpus Theobald (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae)

This document is part of The Featured Creatures collection. The Florida SLE mosquito, Culex nigripalpus, is a significant disease vector in Florida, primarily transmitting St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) and potentially eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) viruses. This mosquito species thrives in subtropical regions and prefers laying eggs in freshly flooded habitats. Due to its abundance and behavior, it poses a considerable risk for arboviral transmission, necessitating vigilant surveillance and management efforts.

• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  EDIS

• Publication date

  1997-07-07

• Fields of study

  Not labeled

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.32473/edis-in136-1997
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• When It Rains, They Soar—and That Makes Culex Nigripalpus a Dangerous Mosquito

  1994cited by this paper
• Annual emergence patterns of Culex nigripalpus females before, during and after a widespread St. Louis encephalitis epidemic in south Florida.

  1993cited by this paper
• Mosquitoes

  1905cited by this paper

• Virome and Microbiome of Florida Bats Illuminate Viral Co-Infections, Dietary Viral Signals, and Gut Microbiome Shifts

  2025cites this paper
• Regional variation in the landscape ecology of West Nile virus sentinel chicken seroconversion in Florida

  2024influential citation
• UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA THESIS OR DISSERTATION FORMATTING TEMPLATE

  2007cites this paper