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Issue: Vol. 1135 No. 1: 27 Feb. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-02-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1135.1.3
Page range: 49–55
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 21

Aedes (Finlaya) alongi Galliard and Ngu (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini): description of the female, redescription of the fourth-instar larva, and reassignment to genus Bothaella Reinert

Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE), United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1600/1700 S.W. 23rd Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32608-1067 USA, and collaborator, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (WRBU), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum (NHM), Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Diptera Bothaella alongi mosquito Culicidae Aedini

Abstract

The female of Aedes (Finlaya) alongi is described for the first time and the fourth-instar larva is redescribed in detail. The species is reassigned to Bothaella and compared to other species of the genus.

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