TABLE 3 in The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification

TABLE 3. Comparable differences between the adult females of the subspecies of Aedes pulcritarsis observed by Edwards (in Barraud 1934). FemalesasiaticuspulcritarsisThorax“Mesonotum mainly dark brown, with a double“Mesonotum with a variable amount of goldenmedian line of white scales on anterior ½, narrowlyscales toward front in middle; pale scales alongbordered externally with yellow scales; on each side ofmargins and over wing-roots, remainder darkthe posterior end of this stripe a rather large patch ofbrown.”whitish scales.”LegsApparently differing as follows: “Femora and tibiae…“mostly black, with conspicuous white knee-with fairly numerous scattered white scales; hindfemurspots and shite rings on tarsi marrow on front(except for this speckling) dark on nearly the wholeand middle pairs, broader on hand pair; 5th tarsalouter surface.”segment of all legs white.”Abdomen“White basal bands on tergites [terga] II–VI complete,…“black, with white basal bands on tergitesthat on VI very narrow.”II–VI, sternites [sterna] similarly coloured.”