Phagomyia Edwards

Harbach, Ralph E. & Howard, Theresa M., 2007, Corrections in the status and rank of names used to denote varietal forms of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), Zootaxa 1542, pp. 35-48 : 43

Genus Phagomyia Edwards [= Aedes (Finlaya) ]

gubernatoris subspecies kotiensis ( Aedes gubernatoris var. kotiensis Barraud, 1934 ). Syntypes (Ψ, ♂): Koti, near Kalka, [Himachal Pradesh], western Himalayas, India (BM).

Barraud (1934) described and named Aedes gubernatoris var. kotiensis based on larvae that differ from the nominotypical form in having shorter antennae and lateral palatal brush filaments with “comparatively very large teeth”. Information provided by Barraud indicates that the two forms may be allopatric. In any case, there is no indication in the original description that Barraud considered kotiensis to be an infrasubspecific entity; hence, it is accordingly deemed to be subspecific in agreement with Article 45.6.4 of the Code.