Phylogeny and classification of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae)
Author
John F. Reinert
Author
Ralph E. Harbach
Author
Ian J. Kitching
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2009
157
700
794
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00570.x
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STEGOMYIA
THEOBALD SUBGENUS
STEGOMYIA
Type species:
Culex aegypti
Linnaeus, 1762
=
Culex fasciatus
Fabricius, 1805
.
Subgenus
Stegomyia
of genus
Stegomyia
is herein restricted to the species included in the
Aegypti
Group of
Huang (2004)
.
Huang (2004)
provided a diagnosis for the subgenus (as
Aegypti
Group) that included male and female characters (page 15), a key to adults (pages 22–24), a key to male genitalia (pages 30–31), partial illustrations of the adults (figs 1–3), and an illustration of the male genitalia of
St. aegypti
(fig. 35). Additional information on the type species of the subgenus,
St. aegypti
, is provided by
Christophers (1960)
(biology of the species),
Ross & Horsfall (1965)
,
Matsuo
et al.
(1974b)
and
Linley (1989)
(description and illustration of the egg),
Belkin (1962)
(illustrations of male genitalia, pupa and fourth-instar larva),
Mattingly (1965)
(descriptions, illustrations and discussion of subspecies and varieties),
Tanaka
et al.
(1979)
(descriptions and illustrations of the female, male and genitalia, and fourth-instar larva),
Huang (1979)
(illustrations of the female genitalia, male and genitalia, pupa and fourth-instar larva),
Reinert (2000g)
(description and illustration of the female genitalia) and Appendix 1 of the present paper.
Included species
Stegomyia aegypti aegypti
,
St. aegypti
formosa
(Walker)
and
St. mascarensis
(MacGregor)
.