The Aedes Mosquitoes of the Philippine Islands 
IIL Subgenera Aedimorphus^ Banksinella^ Aedes^ and Cancraedes 
(Diptera^ Culiddae)^ 
Kenneth L. Knight and William B. Hull^ 
INTRODUCTION 
This is the last of a series of three papers 
dealing with the Aedes fauna of the Philippine 
Islands. Part I (Knight and Hull, 1951) con- 
tained the general introduction, the keys to 
the adults and larvae, and the species treat- 
ments for the subgenera Mucidus, Ochlerotatus, 
and Finlaya. Part II (Knight and Hull, 1952) 
dealt with the subgenera Skusea, Christopher - 
siomyia, Geoskusea^ Rhimskusea, and Stegomyia. 
In this part the remaining aedine subgenera 
known from the Philippines are considered, 
i.e., Aedimorphus, Banksinella, Aedes, and Can- 
craedes. 
All the necessary introductory information 
is given in Part I, and only explanations need- 
ed for an understanding of the abbreviations 
and symbols used are repeated here. 
A dagger(t) denotes types that have been 
examined by us. 
The following abbreviations are used in 
the descriptions. Adult: apn, anterior pronotal 
lobe; ppn, posterior pronotal lobe. Larva: isc, 
inner or upper caudal hair of the anal segment; 
osc, outer or lower caudal hair of anal segment; 
Ih, lateral hair on anal plate. 
Figures are not drawn to scale. 
1 The opinions or conclusions contained herein are 
those of the authors and are not to be construed as 
official or reflecting the views of the Navy Department 
or of the Naval service at large. Manuscript received 
August 12 , 1952. 
^ Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Mary- 
land. Lieutenant Commander, MSC, USN, now with 
Malaria and Mosquito Control Unit # 1 , Naval Air Sta- 
tion, Jacksonville, Florida, and Lieutenant, MSC, USN, 
respectively. 
The following abbreviations are used in the 
species distribution sections to indicate the 
present locations of specimens examined. 
A. N.S.P., Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia; C.A.S., California Academy of 
Sciences; U.S.N.M., U. S. National Museum; 
B. M., British Museum (Natural History); 
C. C., Cornell University; R.K.L., specimens 
from the collection of Naval Medical Research 
Unit No. 2 on which nothing has been pre- 
viously published and which are now de- 
posited in the U. S. National Museum, the 
Johns Hopkins University, the California 
Academy of Sciences, the British Museum, 
and the Knight collection. 
SYSTEMATICS 
Subgenus Aedimorphus Theobald 
1903. Aedimorphus Theobald, Mon. CuL 3: 
290. Genotype: domesticus Theobald 
(Africa) . 
1905. Reedomyia Ludlow, Canad. Ent. 37: 94. 
Genotype: pampangensis Ludlow (Phil- 
ippines). 
ADULT: Brown species, some with distinc- 
tive areas of silvery scaling. In general related 
to Stegomyia, but all the Philippine species 
distinct from that subgenus in the form of the 
male palpi (except the undescribed species 
mentioned in the discussion of wainwrighti) 
and of the dististyle of the male terminalia. 
Male palpi longer than the proboscis; seg- 
ments IV-V down-tilted, numerous long hairs 
arising laterally and apically on the distal por- 
tion of III and all along IV-V (the unde- 
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