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 Aedes (Ochlerotatus) vittiger
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 24-02-2016 20:23
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 Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
This is a bit of a conundrum for the Gallery. I have posted lower resolution pictures named as Ochlerotatus vittiger. The recent publication (A Guide to Mosquitoes of Australia. Webb, Doggett and Russell, 2016) reduces Ochlerotatus to subgenera. Which I will be following. Could the O. vittiger be renamed in the gallery? Graeme Cocks attached the following image:  [82.35Kb] |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 24-02-2016 22:02
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7344 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Graham - I believe that Paul prefers that requests like this are submitted in the "Misidentifications in the Gallery" Section. And, of course if yours is changed, then all the Ochlerotatus should be changed. The matter is still a bit contentious, but I think a majority of mosquito workers are opting to revert to the pre-2000 situation where Aedes simply had lots of subgenera. It was the prospect of several dozens of newly-raised genera, many with attendant gender changes for their species names that seems to have swayed opinion.
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 28-02-2016 20:49
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks for the advice Tony. I'll leave it to Paul to decide what to do with it. |
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