title: Conservation of the names Culex stigmatosoma and Culex thriambus.
abstract: As a result of action by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, the name Culex peus Speiser is suppressed and never to be used as a valid name, and the names Culex stigmatosoma Dyar and Culex thriambus Dyar are conserved for the western banded foul-water mosquito and the related southwestern U.S. species, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis 95616.
authors.forename: B F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Eldridge
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Harbach
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003465:Culex / Q000145:classification*; D015206:Southwestern United States; D009626:Terminology as Topic