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Issue: Vol. 4221 No. 1: 16 Jan. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.1.7
Page range: 131–141
Abstract views: 115
PDF downloaded: 227

Pictorial keys to the sections, groups, and species of the Aedes (Finlaya) in the Afrotropical Region (Diptera: Culicidae)

Department of Entomology, P.O. Box 37012, MSC C1109, MRC 534, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A.
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Department of Entomology, Museum Support Center (MRC 534), Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, U.S.A.
Diptera Culicidae mosquitoes identification key Aedes Finlaya Africa

Abstract

Eight species of the subgenus Finlaya Theobald, genus Aedes Meigen, in the Afrotropical Region are treated in pictorial keys based on diagnostic morphological features.  Images of the diagnostic morphological structures of the adult thorax, leg and wing are included.

 

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