Aedes (Halaedes)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Culicoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Nematocera Infraordo: Culicomorpha Superfamilia: Culicoidea

Familia: Culicidae
Subfamilia: Culicinae
Tribus: Aedini
Genus: Aedes
Subgenus: Aedes (Halaedes)
Species (3): A. (H.) ashworthi – A. (H.) australis – A. (H.) wardangensis

Name

• Halaedes Belkin, 1962
  • Authority for current placement: original
    • disputed by subsequent authorities
  • Gender:
  • Original status: valid subgenus of Aedes
  • Type species: Culex australis Erichson, 1842
    • Fixation: original designation [p. 328] [and monotypy]

References

• Belkin, J.N. 1962: The mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae). 2 vols. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. [Publication date: 'date of issue: July 18, 1962', sourced from inside vol. 1]
• Brust, R.A.; Ballard, J.W.O.; Driver, F.; Hartley, D.M.; Galway, N.J.; Curran, J. 1998: Molecular systematics, morphological analysis, and hybrid crossing identify a third taxon, Aedes (Halaedes) wardangensis sp. nov., of the Aedes (Halaedes) australis species-group (Diptera: Culicidae). Canadian journal of zoology, 76(7): 1236–1246. DOI: 10.1139/z98-051 PDF
• Brust, R.A.; Mahon, R.J. 1997: Resurrection of Aedes (Halaedes) ashworthi Edwards 1921: morphological characterisation and separation from its sibling Aedes (Halaedes) australis (Erichson) 1842 (Diptera: Culicidae). Australian journal of entomology, 36(2): 129–136. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1997.tb01445.x

Links

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• Nomenclator Zoologicus