Revision of What's New? from Thu, 2009-11-26 15:04

November 2009:

  • (5 Nov) Addition of Toxorhynchites
    (Lynchiella) hypoptes (Knab, 1907) and Toxorhynchites
    (Lynchiella) moctezuma (Dyar & Knab, 1906),
    elevated from synonymy with Toxorhynchites (Lynchiella)
    theobaldi (Dyar & Knab, 1906) by Zavortink & Chaverri
    (2009), bringing the total of valid mosquito species to 3,524.

  • (5 Nov) Addition of Wyeomyia
    (Hystatomyia) baltae Porter, 2009, bringing the total
    of valid mosquito species to 3,522.

October 2009:

  • (16 Oct) Addition of Anopheles
    (Nyssorhynchus) janconnae Wilkerson & Sallum, 2009
    and Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) oryzalimnetes
    Wilkerson & Motoki, 2009, bringing the total of valid
    mosquito species to 3,521.

September 2009:

  • (30 Sep) Anopheles Classification
    updated to include funestus-like species and minor changes to
    the Leucosphyrus Group.

  • (16 Sep) Morphology vocabulary
    added.

  • (14 Sep) Addition of Anopheles
    (Cellia) pseudosundaicus Tyagi, Hiriyan,
    Tewari, Ayanar, Samuel, Arunachalam, Paramasivan, Krishnamoorthy,
    Dhananjeyan, Leo & Rajendran, 2009, bring the total number of
    valid mosquito species to 3,519.

  • (7 Sep) Addition of Ochlerotatus
    dahlae
    Nielsen, 2009, bringing the total number of valid
    mosquito species to 3,518.

  • (2 Sep) Removal of loi
    Lien, 1968, a synonym of fengi Edwards, 1935 (Lu
    & Ji, 1997),
    from Genus ‘OCHLEROTATUS
    Lynch Arribálzaga, 1891
    sensu auctorum,
    Subgenus ‘FINLAYA’ Theobald, 1903 sensu
    auctorum
    , thus reducing the total number of valid mosquito
    species to 3,517.

August 2009:

  • Addition of Chagasia ablusa
    Harbach, 2009, bringing the total number of valid mosquito species
    to 3,518.

  • Pages for the 26 subgenera of
    genus Culex (accessible under Culicidae Classification).

  • Complete internal classification
    of genus Culex (accessible under Resources).

  • Updated Valid Mosquito Species to
    include Culex (Culex) sechani Brunhes &
    Boussès, 2009.

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