Aëdes (Finlaya) alektorovi, sp. n.

A dark species of medium size ; praescutum with a large quadratic spot covered with golden-yellow scales. Abdominal segments with small white-scaled lateral spots. Hind tarsi with apical and basal bands on joints 1–3.

♂. Head. dark, covered with pale yellowish erect scales ; eye-margins with many long black bristly hairs (ocular chaete). Proboscis black and black-scaled. Palpi a little shorter than proboscis, black, covered with black scales, in apical part a little clubbed ; apical and preapical joint of palpi with some long dark hairs. Antennae dark brown, with paje bands and a tuft of long blackish hairs. Mesonotum black, covered with numerous golden-yellow scales ; lateral area of praescutum with a small spot of blackish-brown scales; lateral area of scutum with a similar spot. Scutum between the dorsocentral bristles covered with blackish-brown scales. Mesonotal bristles golden-yellow. Scutellum covered with pale yellow scales, with three groups golden-yellow bristles. Pleurae brown. Dorsal margin of proepimera covered with yellowish sickle-shaped scales ; caudal margin of proepimera with a small spot of broad silvery-white scales. Dorsal part of sternopleura with a large spot of broad silvery-white scales, in the middle of caudal margin a similar but much smaller spot. Dorsal part of mesepisterna with a distinct spot of broad silvery-white scales. Abdomen black, with dorsum of all segments densely covered with black scales with steel-blue reflexions ; bases of tergites with triangular lateral spots of broad silvery-white scales. Hypopygium : coxite cylindrical, four times as long as broad at base ; basal part of coxite with a small lobe-like prominence, armed with seven long and stout bristles.