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Skusea

Skusea is a mosquito genus in the family Culicidae. Before the reclassification of aedine genera, Skusea pembaensis was known as Aedes pembaensis.

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Skusea
Skusea pembaensis biting a human arm.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Aedes
Subgenus: Skusea
Theobald, 19031
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Skusea is a mosquito genus (or a subgenus of Aedes) in the family Culicidae. Before the reclassification of aedine genera,2 Skusea pembaensis was known as Aedes pembaensis.

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References

References

  1. Skusea at mosquito-taxonomic-inventory.info (retrieved 25 March 2016)
  2. "Reinert JF, Harbach RE, Kitching IJ. 2004. Phylogeny and classification of Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae) based on morphological characters of all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142: 289–368"