Aedes sabdiversus, Keith Snow, 2001

Keith Snow, 2001, The names of European mosqitoes: Part 7, European Mosqito Bulletin 9, pp. 4-8 : 4

Aedes subdiversus Martini, 1926 [ Ochlerotatus subdiversus ]

Martini, E. (1926) (]ber die Stechmucken tier Umgebung von Saratow. Arbeiten tier biologischen Wolga-Station, Saratow 8,189-277.

Latin, sub = close to or less than, smaller than

diversus = a species of mosquito

Described on page 204 as:

24. Aedes sabdiversus n. sp.

Sie gleicht Aedes diversus , doch ist der Basallappen an den Hypopygien der Mannchen kiirzer ... (It is similar to Atxies diversus , but the basal lobe (= basal dorsomesallobe) of the hypopygium in males is shorter ...).

Sub is used either in the sense of the new species being close to Aedes diversus Theobald [a synonym of Aedes rusticus (Rossi) (Knight & Stone, 1977) ] or to depict that the species has a character that is smaller / shorter than that of the compared species.