The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification Author Harbach, Ralph E. 0000-0003-1384-6972 r.harbach@nhm.ac.uk Author Wilkerson, Richard C. 0000-0001-6366-1357 wilkersonr@si.edu text Zootaxa 2023 2023-06-15 5303 1 1 184 http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN journal article 53758 10.11646/zootaxa.5303.1.1 55cb0aa4-25b5-43fc-b545-54697a22b641 1175-5326 8043342 DE9C1F18-5CEE-4968-9991-075B977966FE

TABLE 3. Comparable differences between the adult females of the subspecies of Aedes pulcritarsis observed by Edwards (in Barraud 1934).

Females	asiaticus	pulcritarsis
Thorax	“Mesonotum mainly dark brown, with a double	“Mesonotum with a variable amount of golden
	median line of white scales on anterior ½, narrowly	scales toward front in middle; pale scales along
	bordered externally with yellow scales; on each side of	margins and over wing-roots, remainder dark
	the posterior end of this stripe a rather large patch of	brown.”
whitish scales.”
Legs	Apparently differing as follows: “Femora and tibiae	…“mostly black, with conspicuous white knee-
	with fairly numerous scattered white scales; hindfemur	spots and shite rings on tarsi marrow on front
	(except for this speckling) dark on nearly the whole	and middle pairs, broader on hand pair; 5th tarsal
	outer surface.”	segment of all legs white.”
Abdomen	“White basal bands on tergites [terga] II–VI complete,	…“black, with white basal bands on tergites
	that on VI very narrow.”	II–VI, sternites [sterna] similarly coloured.”