Al 1 4I Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2006, 148, 1-101. With 2 figures
Phylogeny and classification of Finlaya and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages
JOHN F. REINERTI , RALPH E. HARBACH2 and IAN J. IUTCHING2 Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1600/1700 SW 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608-1067, USA 2Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Received July 2005; accepted for publication March 2006
The phylogenetic relationships and generic assignments of Finlaya and related taxa of uncertain taxonomic position in the classification of Aedini proposed by Reinert et al. (2004) are explored using 232 characters from eggs, fourth- instar larvae, pupae, adults and immature habitat coded for 116 exemplar species. The ingroup comprises 74 species, including 41 currently classified as Finlaya , 25 formerly placed in this group and eight related species. The outgroup includes four non-aedine species and 38 aedine species representing all generic-level taxa of the polyphyletic Ochierotatus and major clades within the polyphyletic Aedes