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Culex perfuscus
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<p><i>Culex perfuscus</i> is the only <i><a href="/facts/Culex/Ip3x1DJ0">Culex</a></i> <a href="/facts/Species/oDg6b96r">species</a> mosquito currently implicated as a possible <a href="/facts/Vector_(epidemiology)/bepASE2M">vector</a> of <a href="/facts/Zika_virus/qutGSNfM">Zika virus</a>. The species <a href="/facts/Type_(biology)/mTM1beKX">type</a> was described in 1914 from <a href="/facts/Port_Herald/SYkvaB1W">Port Herald</a>, <a href="/facts/Nyasaland/5y7IlYHA">Nyasaland</a> by <a href="/facts/Entomologist/zTtUNTWm">entomologist</a> <a href="/facts/Frederick_Wallace_Edwards/YsQKk6hP">Frederick Wallace Edwards</a>. </p>