Stegomyia (Stegomyia), Theobald, Theobald

John F. Reinert, Ralph E. Harbach & Ian J. Kitching, 2009, Phylogeny and classification of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157, pp. 700-794 : 783

STEGOMYIA THEOBALD SUBGENUS STEGOMYIA

Type species: Culex aegypti Linnaeus, 1762 = Culex fasciatus Fabricius, 1805 .

Subgenus Stegomyia of genus Stegomyia is herein restricted to the species included in the Aegypti Group of Huang (2004). Huang (2004) provided a diagnosis for the subgenus (as Aegypti Group) that included male and female characters (page 15), a key to adults (pages 22–24), a key to male genitalia (pages 30–31), partial illustrations of the adults (figs 1–3), and an illustration of the male genitalia of St. aegypti (fig. 35). Additional information on the type species of the subgenus, St. aegypti , is provided by Christophers (1960) (biology of the species), Ross & Horsfall (1965), Matsuo et al. (1974b) and Linley (1989) (description and illustration of the egg), Belkin (1962) (illustrations of male genitalia, pupa and fourth-instar larva), Mattingly (1965) (descriptions, illustrations and discussion of subspecies and varieties), Tanaka et al. (1979) (descriptions and illustrations of the female, male and genitalia, and fourth-instar larva), Huang (1979) (illustrations of the female genitalia, male and genitalia, pupa and fourth-instar larva), Reinert (2000g) (description and illustration of the female genitalia) and Appendix 1 of the present paper.

Included species

Stegomyia aegypti aegypti , St. aegypti formosa (Walker) and St. mascarensis (MacGregor) .