Aedes simpsoni
Creators: name: Yiau-Min Huang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Aedes
Aedes simpsoni

description: THE SIMPSONI GROUP
(males of gandaensis, kivuensis and sampi unknown)
54(7). Scutellum with broad white scales on midlobe and with broad dark scales on lateral lobes (Fig. 31C) ............................................................................................. 55 Scutellum with broad white scales on all lobes (Figs. 27 A; 29A; 31A,B; 32A). 56
55(54). Fore­ and midtarsi with a basal white band on tarsomeres 1–5; hindtarsomere 4 with basal 0.6 white on dorsal surface (Fig. 26 A) ................................. gandaensis Fore­ and midtarsi with a basal white band on tarsomeres 1,2; hindtarsomere 4 all dark (Figs. 26 B,C) .......................................................................................... woodi
56(54). Hindtarsomere 4 with a basal white band or all white (Figs. 27 B; 28A; 29B; 30A,B,C)...............................................................................................................57 Hindtarsomere 4 all dark (Figs. 28 B,C; 32B; 33A,B,C; 34A,B,C) ..................... 60
57(56). Hindtarsomere 4 with a basal white band (Figs. 30 A,B,C) ................................. 58 Hindtarsomere 4 all white (Figs. 27 B; 28A; 29B)............................................... 59
58(57). Hindfemur anteriorly with basal 0.33–0.40 white, and with a large white spot about 0.67 from base, the white spot not connecting with the basal white area; hindtarsomere 5 with basal 0.40–0.67 white on dorsal surface (Figs. 30 B,C) .................. ............................................................................................................. subargenteus
Hindfemur anteriorly with a broad white stripe in basal 0.57; hindtarsomere 5 all
white (Fig. 30 A) ............................................................................................... sampi 59(57). Hindfemur anteriorly with a broad white stripe in basal 0.50, and with a white spot
about 0.62 from base, the white spot not connecting with the basal white stripe;
tergum I without a median white spot (Figs. 29 B,C,D) ............................. kivuensis
Hindfemur anteriorly with a broad white stripe in basal 0.60­0.66; tergum I with a
median white spot (Figs. 27 B,C,D; 28A) .................................................... josiahae 60(56). Hindtibia with a white stripe on ventral surface in basal 0.25­0.30 (Figs. 28 B,C)
.................................................................................................................. strelitziae
Hindtibia without a white stripe on ventral surface in basal area (Figs. 32 B;
33A,B,C; 34A,B,C) ............................................................................................. 61 61(60). Fore­ and midtarsomere 2 with basal 0.80 or more white on dorsal surface; female
fore­ and midlegs with tarsal claws equal and simple (Figs. 32 B; 33A; 34A; and 31D)
............................................................................................................. simpsoni
Foretarsomere 2 with basal 0.64 or less white on dorsal surface; midtarsomere 2
with basal 0.75 or less white on dorsal surface; female fore­ and midlegs with tar­
sal claws equal and toothed (Figs. 33 B,C; 34B,C; and 31E,F) ........................... 62 62(61). Midtarsomere 2 with basal 0.50 or less white on dorsal surface; hindtarsomere 5
with basal 0.50­0.75 white on dorsal surface (Figs. 33 B; 34B) ......................... lilii
Midtarsomere 2 with basal 0.54 or more white on dorsal surface; hindtarsomere 5
all white, or all white except tip (Figs. 33 C; 34C) .................................... bromeliae
description: Published as part of Yiau-Min Huang, 2004, The subgenus Stegomyia of Aedes in the Afrotropical Region with keys to the species (Diptera: Culicidae), pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 700 on pages 28-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.166051