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Aedes

Insecta - Diptera - Culicidae

Taxonomy
Aedes was named by Meigen (1818). It is extant. It is the type genus of Aedini.

It was assigned to Culiciformes by Meigen (1818); to Culicidae by Aldrich (1905) and Carpenter (1992); and to Aedini by Harbach (2007).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1818Aedes Meigen p. 13
1905Aedes Aldrich p. 134
1992Aedes Carpenter
2007Aedes Harbach

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyCulicoidea
familyCulicidae
subfamilyCulicinae()
tribeAediniNeveu-Lemaire 1902
genusAedes

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Aedes Meigen 1818
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Subg. †Aedes (Finlaya) Szadziewski 1998
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Aedes (Finlaya) serafini Szadziewski 1998
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Blancan or 38.00000 to 1.80000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) A. sp. (123959)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland A. serafini (110737)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Texas) A. sp. (154909)