Molecular systematics, morphological analysis, and hybrid crossing identify a third taxon, Aedes (Halaedes) wardangensis sp.nov., of the Aedes (Halaedes) australis species-group (Diptera : Culicidae)

Citation
Ra. Brust et al., Molecular systematics, morphological analysis, and hybrid crossing identify a third taxon, Aedes (Halaedes) wardangensis sp.nov., of the Aedes (Halaedes) australis species-group (Diptera : Culicidae), CAN J ZOOL, 76(7), 1998, pp. 1236-1246
Citations number
38
Categorie Soggetti
Animal Sciences
Journal title
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE ZOOLOGIE
ISSN journal
00084301 → ACNP
Volume
76
Issue
7
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1236 - 1246
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-4301(199807)76:7<1236:MSMAAH>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Phylogenetic and morphological analyses, male morphology, and hybrid crossi ng indicate that a population from Wardang Island, South Australia, is dist inct from the monophyletic series of populations of Aedes (Halaedes) austra lis (Erichson) 1842 from Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, and New Zeala nd. The name Aedes (Halaedes) wardangensis has been assigned to the new spe cies. Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences from the cytochrome oxidase II and internal transcribed spacer loci support the resurrection of Aedes (Ha laedes) ashworthi Edwards, 1921 (Brust and Mahon. 1997). Aedes ashworthi is known only from Western Australia and was found to be infertile when cross ed with Ae. wardangensis from South Australia and Ae. australis from New Ze aland. The hybrid of Ae. australis from New South Wales x Ae. australis fro m New Zealand was fertile for three generations, documenting these as consp ecific.