Culex perfuscus
Culex perfuscus is the only Culex species mosquito currently implicated as a possible vector of Zika virus. The species type was described in 1914 from Port Herald, Nyasaland by entomologist Frederick [Wallace Edwards].
Bionomics
Culex perfuscus have been collected in a variety of sites in forest habitat, including springs containing green algae, foul pools, shaded residual pools, the bed of a temporary stream, the edge of a slow-flowing river, and water in the bottom of an old canoe.Culex perfuscus occurs in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central [African Republic], Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan and South Sudan, and Uganda.