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A Synopsis of the Adult Mosquitos of the Australasian Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

F. W. Edwards
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In two previous papers (Bull. Ent. Res. xii, p. 263, 1921 and Ind. JI. Med. Res. x, pp. 249 and 430, 1922) the writer has published revisions of the mosquitos of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions, using for the classification of the genera certain small characters, chiefly in the thoracic chaetotaxy, which are applicable a like to both sexes. In the present revision of the Australasian species the same characters are applied.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , May 1924 , pp. 351 - 401
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1924

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page 360 note * It has recently been shown by Mr. S. B. Freeborn that the sclerites which have hitherto been called proepimera in mosquitos are really the posterior portions of the pronotal lobes. But for present convenience the term “proepimeral bristles” has been retained in this paper.

page 374 note * Dr. Ferguson has re-examined Skuse's type and states that lower mesepimeral bristles are present; pale scales of wing’s moderately numerous and slightly broader and shorter than usual, but not nearly so wide as in A. theobaldi.

page 376 note * Dr. Ferguson informs me that the type of C. Procax apparently possesses a lower mesepimeral bristle; it is therefore more likely to be A. camptorhynchus than A. rubrithorax. He also states that the type of A. occidenatalis is a Finlaya.

page 378 note * Dr. Ferguson believes that A. wilsoni and A. sagax are certainly conspecific, but sagax has the abdominal scales distinctly purplish in certain lights.

page 385 note * Dr. Ferguson finds that Skuse's type of C. occidentalis is a Finalaya; it may perhaps be this species. See p. 376.

page 387 note * I am indebted to Dr. S. L. Brug for calling my attention to this character.

page 392 note * This character applies also to the Oriental species of the subgenus, but not to the African.

page 398 note * In Dyar’s key to the subgenera of culex (Insecutor Insecitiae, vi, p. 92, 1918), Neoculex is wrongly included in the group which has the tenth sternites tufted. Actually in the type species they terminate in quite a definite comb, much as in the present species, though the teeth are shorter.