Subgenus Aedes (Stegomyia) Theobald, 1901

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stegmyia Theobald, F.V. in Howard, L.O. 1901. Mosquitoes. How they live; how they carry disease; how they are classified; how they may be destroyed. New York : McClure, Phillips & Co. 241 pp. 50 figs. [235].

  Type species:

   Culex fasciatus Fabricius, 1805 (= Culex aegypti Linneaus, 1762) by subsequent designation, see Neveu-Lemaire, M. 1902. Classification de la famille des Culicidae. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 15: 195-227 [212].
• Pseudostegomyia Theobald, F.V. 1910. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 5 646 pp. [10].

  Type species:

   Stegomyia gardinerii Ludlow, 1905 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Knight, K.L. & Stone, A. 1977. A Catalog of the Mosquitoes of the World (Diptera: Culicidae). The Thomas Say Foundation. College Park, Maryland : Entomological Society of America Vol. 6. [154] (for extralimital synonymies)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2009. Phylogeny and classification of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157(4): 700-794

History of changes