Kitching, Reinert & Harbach & Kitching, 2006, Reinert & Harbach & Kitching, 2006

Reinert, John F., Harbach, Ralph E. & Kitching, Ian J., 2006, Phylogeny and classification of Finlaya and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148 (1), pp. 1-101 : 83-84

RAMPAMYIA REINERT, HARBACH & KITCHING ,

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Type species: Culex notoscriptus Skuse, 1889 .

Females

Head: Vertex with decumbent scales both broad and narrow; occiput and vertex with erect forked scales; eyes contiguous or separated by less than or equal to 1 eye facet; antennal pedicel with patch of overlapping, broad, silvery scales on mesal surface; clypeus bare; maxillary palpus with apex pale-scaled; proboscis with well-developed pale-scaled band at about midlength.

Thorax: Acrostichal area with narrow stripe of pale scales on anterior and posterior areas; posterior dorsocentral area with narrow stripe of pale scales; scutal fossa with narrow stripe of pale scales on lateral and usually posterior margins; supraalar area with narrow, longitudinal patch of pale scales; prescutellar median, bare area with pale scales laterally mesal to setae; acrostichal and dorsocentral areas with both anterior and posterior setae; scutellum with broad scales on all lobes; scutal fossa with 1 or 2 posterior setae; paratergite with broad, pale scales; broad scales on antepronotum, postpronotum, subspiracular area, upper proepisternum, lower prealar area, upper and lower posterior mesokatepisternum, and upper and lower mesepimeron, other pleural areas without scales; mesepimeron without lower setae.

Wing: Dark-scaled; upper calypter with several setae on margin; alula with row of narrow scales on margin; remigium without dorsal and ventral setae.

Legs: Ante- and postprocoxal membranes bare; mid- and hindfemora with median stripe of pale scales on anterior surface; hindtarsus with wide, basal, palescaled bands on tarsomeres 1–4; fore- and midungues equal, each with 1 tooth; hindungues equal, simple.

Abdomen: Tergum I with silvery-scaled patch on lateral tergite; segment VII laterally compressed.

Genitalia: Tergum VIII sclerotized, width greater than length, without (rarely with 1 or 2 adventitious) scales, setae on distal 0.30 or less of tergum; sternum VIII sclerotized, width greater than length, without (rarely with 1 or 2 adventitious) scales, apex broad, each side nearly flat and very gently sloping to midline, seta 2-S inserted posterior to seta 1-S; tergum IX comprising single sclerite with moderately deep, median, apical emargination, 2–7 setae distally on each side of midline; postgenital lobe relatively long, narrow, with spicules well developed on lateral margins, few setae distally; upper vaginal sclerite well developed, moderately to heavily pigmented; lower vaginal sclerite absent; insula liplike, with 5–7 setae in lateral patches; cercus moderately long, moderately wide, apex broadly rounded, without scales; 3 spermathecal capsules.

Males

Head: Maxillary palpus with 5 palpomeres, longer than proboscis, numerous long setae ventrolaterally on distal part of palpomere 3 and ventrolaterally on palpomere 4; antennal flagellar whorls with numerous long setae directed dorsally and ventrally.

Legs: Fore- and midtarsi with 2 unequal ungues, both toothed; hindtarsus with 2 equal ungues, simple.

Genitalia: Posterior margin of tergum IX with pair of short, narrow, acute lobes bearing few slender to moderately stout setae; gonocoxite relatively long, relatively narrow, mesal margin of dorsal surface without apical and basal lobes, ventral surface with patch of long, narrow, lanceolate setae on distal part of mesal margin, mesal surface membranous; gonostylus attached at apex of gonocoxite, relatively short, less than or equal to 0.25 length of gonocoxite, narrow, distal part slender and slightly curved mesally, with single long, narrow gonostylar claw at apex; aedeagus simple, tubelike, noticeably long and narrow; paramere relatively long and narrow; proctiger with cercal setae; claspette with single, long, slender, columnar stem, claspette filament attached apically, flattened, curved with distal part tapering to bluntly pointed apex; sternum IX with setae on posteromedian area.

Pupae