Ochlerotatus

Harbach, Ralph E. & Howard, Theresa M., 2007, Corrections in the status and rank of names used to denote varietal forms of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), Zootaxa 1542, pp. 35-48 : 43

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.177892
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6246121
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scientific name	Ochlerotatus
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Subgenus “ Ochlerotatus View in CoL View at ENA ” sensu auctorum

caspius View in CoL subspecies hargreavesi View in CoL ( Aedes caspius View in CoL var. hargreavesi Edwards, 1920 ). Syntypes (Ψ): Taranto, Puglia, Italy (BM).

Edwards (1920) described and named var. hargreavesi based on six females that differed from the type form in having the central area of the scutum covered with whitish scales. He explicitly stated that “Nothing approaching this variation has been seen from elsewhere, and it therefore seems justifiable to distinguish them under a separate name”. Since it is clear that Edwards did not consider the specimens to be an infrasubspecific variant, hargreavesi View in CoL is a valid name of a subspecies (Article 45.6.4) with availability from Edwards (1920).