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TABLE 3 in The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification
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TABLE 3. Comparable differences between the adult females of the subspecies of Aedes pulcritarsis observed by Edwards (in Barraud 1934).
| Females | asiaticus | pulcritarsis |
|---|---|---|
| Thorax | “Mesonotum mainly dark brown, with a double | “Mesonotum with a variable amount of golden |
| median line of white scales on anterior ½, narrowly | scales toward front in middle; pale scales along | |
| bordered externally with yellow scales; on each side of | margins and over wing-roots, remainder dark | |
| the posterior end of this stripe a rather large patch of | brown.” | |
| whitish scales.” | ||
| Legs | Apparently differing as follows: “Femora and tibiae | …“mostly black, with conspicuous white knee- |
| with fairly numerous scattered white scales; hindfemur | spots and shite rings on tarsi marrow on front | |
| (except for this speckling) dark on nearly the whole | and middle pairs, broader on hand pair; 5th tarsal | |
| outer surface.” | segment of all legs white.” | |
| Abdomen | “White basal bands on tergites [terga] II–VI complete, | …“black, with white basal bands on tergites |
| that on VI very narrow.” | II–VI, sternites [sterna] similarly coloured.” | |
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Published as part of Harbach, Ralph E. & Wilkerson, Richard C., 2023, The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification, pp. 41 in Zootaxa 5303 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5303.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8043342
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- Barraud, P. J. (1934) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera. Vol. V. Family Culicidae. Tribes Megarhinini and Culicini. Taylor and Francis, London, xxviii + 463 pp., 8 pls.