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The Specific Status of Aedes pionips Dyar (Diptera: Culicidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. R. Vockeroth
J. R. Vockeroth
Affiliation:
Systematic Entomology, Division of Entomology, Ottawa, Canada
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The status of the mosquito Aedes pionips Dyar, 1919, has so far remained in doubt. The original description says in part, “Similar to lazarensis F. & Y. [=communis (Deg.)] but larger and more heavily marked.” Of the larva Dyar wrote, “…head hairs in fives; other characters essentially as in lazarensis.”

In 1928 Dyar wrote, “Where the two occur together, as is frequently the case, the communis are all out of the pools weeks before the pionips have matured.” Also, “This [pionips] is a derivative species of communis, but quite distinct.” In his keys he separated the females by colour and the larvae by numbers of head hairs; the males were not separated.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 84 , Issue 8 , August 1952 , pp. 243 - 247
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1952

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