Classification Key to Species of Culex (Culex) (Diptera: Culicidae ) in the North of Aleppo - Syria

Abstract

The study was conducted in the north of Aleppo / Syria, and several sites for the development of key classification of the types of normal Culex spp, a total 2811 were collected by light traps with CO2, it were recorded five species which belong to genus Culex: Culex Culex pipiens, Culex Culex antennatus, Culex Culex laticinctus, Culex Culex perexiguus, Culex Culex thieleri. It had excerpted Classification key to the species of Culex in the north of Aleppo- Syria based on taxonomic characters of the body morphology and male genitalia.