Aedes alhopicJus (Skuse, 1895)
Keith Snow, 2001, The names of European mosqitoes: Part 7, European Mosqito Bulletin 9, pp. 4-8 : 5
|
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.164887 |
|
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6279713 |
|
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DF5674-DA60-FFC5-BA85-FB65FAA47D1C |
|
treatment provided by |
Plazi |
|
scientific name |
Aedes alhopicJus (Skuse, 1895) |
| status |
|
Aedes alhopicJus (Skuse, 1895) View in CoL
Skuse, F. AA (1894) [1895] The banded mosquito of Bengal. Indian Museum Notes 3, 20.
Latin, albus = white; pictus = painted
In the one-page written description entitled Culex albopictus, Skuse, Sp. nov. there are many references to the white! silveIYwhite scales of the mosquito. Among these are: "Black with silveI)'-white matkings ... Head with silveIY-white scales ... tarsi, the first two joints in the fore and intennediate legs with a narrow silveIY-white ring at the base; broad rings at the base of all the joints of the tarsi in the hind legs, the last joint entirely white." The striking black mosquito painted with white markings is thus described.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.