A pictorial key to the species of the Aedes (Zavortinkius) in the Afrotropical Region (Diptera: Culicidae)

2015/10/06 by Yiau-Min Huang, Leopoldo M. Rueda · 1 citation
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Dengue and Mosquito Control Research #Mosquito-borne diseases and control

paper · pdf · doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4027.4.9

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Abstract

Six species of the subgenus Zavortinkius of Aedes Meigen in the Afrotropical Region are treated in a pictorial key based on diagnostic morphological features. Images of the diagnostic morphological structures of the adult thorax and leg are included.

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