Jarnellius

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 : 78-79

JARNELLIUS SUBGENUS JARNELLIUS REINERT,

HARBACH & KITCHING

Females

Head: Maxillary palpus dark-scaled with pale-scaled areas.

Thorax: Scutal fossa with white-scaled lines on lateral and posterior margins that are not expanded mesally; postpronotum with narrow, curved scales dorsally and broad scales ventrally; hypostigmal area without scales; mesepimeron with upper and lower patches of white scales.

Legs: Hindtibia dark-scaled with white scales basally; hindtarsomere 1 with broad basal and apical, whitescaled bands, hindtarsomeres 2 and 3 with broad,

apical, white-scaled band; fore- and midungues each with 1 tooth.

Genitalia: Cercus moderately long, moderately wide, apex sharply rounded, without scales.

Males

Legs: Fore- and midungues each with 1 tooth.

Pupae

Abdomen: Seta 5-II inserted lateral to 4-II; 5-V shorter than median length of tergum VI; 6-VII inserted posterior and mesal to 9-VII.

Fourth-instar larvae

Head: Seta 6-C with 2 branches; antenna without spicules.

Abdomen: Seta 7-II developed similarly to 7-I, single (occasionally 2-branched in Ja. sierrensis ), moderately long to long; ventral brush attached to grid with only transverse grid bars, seta 4a-X long.

Distribution

Canada (British Columbia) , Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora) and United States (Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington) .

Included species

Jarnellius deserticola , Ja. laguna , Ja. monticola , Ja. sierrensis and Ja. varipalpus .

Recommended abbreviation = Jar.