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- ↑ Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit: Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Culicidae » Culicinae » Culicini » Culex » Lophoceraomyia » marksae King and Hoogstraal, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=16653, retrieved April 22, 2018.
- ↑ Johannes van den Assem. 1958. The larva and female of Culex (Lophoceraomyia) marksae King and Hoogstraal (Diptera, Culicidae). Entomologische Berichten, 18: 218-219.