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ADDITIONAL ABBREVIATIONS OF MOSQUITO SUBGENERA: NAMES ESTABLISHED SINCE 1982 (DIPTERA: CULICIDAE)

JOHN F. REINERT

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ABSTRACT. Abbreviations for 12 subgeneraof Culicidae establishedsince the last list in 1982 are included.

Reinert ( 1975) proposeda list of abbrevia- Abbreviations of Subgenera of Culicidae tions for 34 genera (two letters) and 119 subgenera(three letters) of the family Culici- A_frocl4lex = Aft (genus Culex) dae. In 1982 he provided an update to this Afrorhynchus = Afr (genus Toxorhynchites) list and included abbreviations for three ad- Albz4ginosus = Alb (genus Aedes) ditional genera and five subgenera.Since the Caenomyiella = Cae (genus Wyeomyia) latter list the following 12 subgenera have Exallom yia = Exm (genus Wyeomyia) been describedas new, resurrectedfrom syn- Kenknightia = Ken (genusAedes) onymy, or have received other treatment Kitzmilleria = Kit (genus Culex) (some had abbreviations proposed): Neomacleaya = Nma (genus Aedes) Neomacleaya ’ Theobald (Nma proposed by Peytonulus = Pey (genus Sabethes) Tsukamoto et al. 1985); Scutomyia Theobald Scutomyia = Scu (genus Aedes) (Scz4proposed by Reinert 1985); Zinzala Za- Sinoaedes = Sin (genusAedes) vortink (1985); AlbuginosusReinert (Alb pro- Zinzala = Zin (genus Wyeomyia) posed by Reinert 1987); Afroculex Danilov and Kitzmilleria Danilov (1990); Caeno- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS myiella Harbach and Peyton (Cae proposed by Harbach and Peyton 1990); Kenknightia Appreciation is expressedto Ralph E. Har- Reinert (Ken proposedby Reinert 1990); Si- bath, E.L. Peyton and Ronald A. Ward, Wal- noaedes Gong and Lu ( 199 1); Peytonulus ter Reed Army Institute of Research, Wash- Harbach (Pey proposed by Harbach 199 1); ington, DC for reviewing the manuscript. Exallomyia Harbach and Peyton (Exm pro- posed by Harbach and Peyton 1992); and Afiorhynchus Ribeiro (Afi proposed by Ri- REFERENCES CITED beiro 1992). Danilov, V.N. 1990. Two new Afrotropical subgenera of the mosquito genus Culex (Diptera, Culicidae). Entomol. Rev. 69: 112-120 (originally published in Ento- mol. Obozr., 1989, No. 4, pp. 790-797). Gong, Zhengda and Baolin Lu. 199 1. A new subgenusand speciesof the Aedes (Dip- tera: Culicidae) from Yunnan, China. En- tomotaxonomia 13:55-59 (in Chinese). Harbach, R.E. 199 1. A new subgenusof the genus Sabethes (Diptera: Culicidae). ’ N~wnac/eu_tuis a synonym of Verrallina Theobald (see Mosq. Syst. 23: 1-9. Reinert 1974). Harbach, R.E. and E.L. Peyton. 1990. A new 210 MOSQUITO SYSTEMATICS VOL. 23, No. 3

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