Revision of What's New? from Fri, 2010-01-15 11:46

January 2010:

• (15 Jan) Spelling of the specific name of Stegomyia w-albus corrected to Stegomyia w-alba, as originally described.

December 2009:

• (2 Dec) Changes and additions where appropriate to record the new genera and subgenera of tribe Aedini proposed by Reinert et al. (2009), bringing the total number of mosquito genera to 113 (80 in tribe Aedini).

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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