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)
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
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Categorie Soggetti
Animal Sciences
Journal title
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE ZOOLOGIE
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.