Type species:
Scutomyia albolineata Theobald, 1904.
Classification:
Subfamily Culicinae, tribe Aedini. Scutomyia includes nine species.
Characteristics:
See Aedini.
Bionomics and disease relations:
Species of Scutomyia are usually found in plant containers such as bamboo stumps and tree holes, but they also occur in numerous other phytotelmata, artificial containers, rock holes, lagoons and jungle pools. Females of at least three species are known to bite humans.
Distribution:
The type species of Scutomyia is widely distributed in the Oriental and Australasian Regions, six species of the genuks are known only from the Philippines and two are known only from Sulawesi.
Principal references:
Reinert, 1985 (taxonomy); Reinert et al., 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009 (classification, phylogeny); Rattanarithikul et al., 2010 (Thailand, keys, bionomics).
Species:
albolineata Theobald, 1904
arboricola (Knight & Rozeboom, 1946)
bambusicola (Knight & Rozeboom, 1946)
boharti (Knight & Rozeboom, 1946)
hoogstraali (Knight & Rozeboom, 1946)
impatibilis (Walker, 1860)
laffooni (Knight & Rozeboom, 1946)
platylepida (Knight & Hull, 1951)
pseudalbolineata (Brug, 1939)