Rusticoidus Shevchenko and Prudkina 1973

Wilkerson, Richard C. & Linton, Yvonne-Marie, 2015, Elevation of Pseudoskusea, Rusticoidus and Protomacleaya to valid subgenera in the mosquito genus Aedes based on taxon naming criteria recently applied to other members of the Tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae), Parasites & Vectors (668) 8 (1), pp. 1-4 : 3

Subgenus Rusticoidus Shevchenko and Prudkina 1973 (as subg. of genus Aedes ; M*, key) [ 28].

Type species: Aedes refiki Medschid albescens Edwards, 1921 bicristatus Thurman and Winkler, 1950 krymmontanus Alekseev, 1989 lepidonotus Edwards, 1920 provocans (Walker, 1848) quasirusticus Torres Canamares, 1951 refiki Medschid, 1928 rusticus (Rossi, 1790) ssp. subtrichurus Martini, 1927 subdiversus Martini, 1926

Important References:

Reinert 1999 (tax., review) [ 29]

Reinert 2000 (to subg. of genus Ochlerotatus ) [ 11]

Reinert 2002 (F gen.*) [ 23]

Reinert et al. 2008 (phyl., class.) [ 3]

Reinert et al. 2009 (phyl., class.) [ 4]

Wilkerson et al. 2015 (to syn. of subg. Ochlerotatus of genus Aedes ) [12]

Herein: to subg. of genus Aedes

Important taxonomic information and key references for the three Aedes subgenera treated herein (www.mosquitocatalog.org, 13 Sept. 2015); associated species are listed by subgenera. [Tax. = taxonomy, phyl. = phylogenetics, class. = classification, bion. = bionomics, distr. = distribution, subg. = subgenus, syn. = snynomy, * = all or part of life stage is illustrated, F = female, M = male, gen. = genitalia, emend. = emendation]