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Mosquito Notes.—IX

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

F. W. Edwards
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In his catalogue of the Anophelini (1924) Christophers admitted only one genus the tribe, which he divided into five subgenera: Anopheles (s. str.), Nyssorhynchus, Myzomyia, Bironella and Chagasia. The position of the first three as subgenera Anopheles is now universally accepted, but the arguments in favour of recognising the other two as distinct genera are worth consideration.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , October 1930 , pp. 287 - 306
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1930

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* Since writing the above notes I have read a paper by Drs. H. de Rook & R. Soesilo in which these authors show that Stethomyia aitkeni var. papuae, Swell., is a distinct species and belongs to the genus Bironella. They note as larval characters of Bironella the presence of a “fourth shoulder-hair” and of two pairs of palmate hairs on the thorax. B. papuae evidently falls in the subgenus Bironella as defined above, differing from B. gracilis, Theo. (═bironelli, Chr.) chiefly in the incomplete upper fork of the wing.