In 2008, specimens resembling Aedes (Finlaya) koreicus (Edwards) (also Ochlerotatus koreicus or Hulecoeteomyia koreica) were found in Belgium during a national mosquito survey (MODIRISK). Small but consistent differences were, however, observed between the specimens described from Peninsula Korea and those found in Belgian. To achieve the correct identification a detailed morphological comparis...

Culex (Eumelanomyia) richei is reported and described from Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. The female, pupa and fourthinstar larva are described for the first time. INTRODUCTION. In October of 1985 we made a collection of immature mosquitoes on Doi Inthanon, the highest mountain of Thailand located in Chiang Mai Province, which contained larvae of two species of Culex (Eumelanomyia). One of thes...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS In the last decade, genomic studies using DNA markers have strongly influenced the current phylogeny of angiosperms. Genome size and ploidy level have contributed to this discussion, being considered important characters in biosystematics, ecology and population biology. Despite the recent increase in studies related to genome size evolution and polyploidy incidence, only a ...

James H. Oliver, Jr.’s Policy Forum “Crisis in biosystematics of arthropods” (20 May, p. 967) would have the scientific community do the right deed for the wrong reason. Systematics is not simply the identification of specimens, it is the reconstruction of evolutionary history; and it should be supported not just because it has practical applications (which it does) but because it is a fundamen...