A pictorial key to the species of Aedes (Ochlerotatus and Coetzeemyia) in the Afrotropical Region (Diptera: Culicidae)

YIAU-MIN HUANG; LEOPOLDO M. RUEDA

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3754.5.5

Issue: Vol. 3754 No. 5: 17 Jan. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-01-14

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.5.5

Page range: 592–600

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**A pictorial key to the species of Aedes (Ochlerotatus and Coetzeemyia) in the Afrotropical Region (Diptera: Culicidae)**

YIAU-MIN HUANG⁺⁻
LEOPOLDO M. RUEDA⁺⁻

Department of Entomology, P.O. Box 37012, MSC C1109, MRC 534, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A.

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Entomology Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, U.S.A. Mailing address: Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Museum Support Center (MRC 534), Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, U.S.A.

Culicidae mosquitoes identification key Africa

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Abstract

Six species of the subgenus Ochlerotatus and one species of the subgenus Coetzeemyia of the genus Aedes in the Afrotropical Region are treated in a pictorial key based on diagnostic morphological features. Brief remarks on the new reclassification of the genus Aedes are also included.