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Issue: Vol. 4027 No. 4: 6 Oct. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-10-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.4.9
Page range: 593–599
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 21

A pictorial key to the species of the Aedes (Zavortinkius) 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, Entomology Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, U.S.A. Mailing address: Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Museum Support Center (MRC 534), Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, U.S.A.
Diptera Culicidae Aedes mosquitoes identification key Africa

Abstract

Six species of the subgenus Zavortinkius of Aedes Meigen in the Afrotropical Region are treated in a pictorial key based on diagnostic morphological features. Images of the diagnostic morphological structures of the adult thorax and leg are included.