Genus LEWNIELSENIUS Reinert, Harbach & Kitching, 2006

Name-Bearing Type: 

Aedes muelleri Dyar, 1920.

Classification: 

Subfamily Culicinae, tribe Aedini. Lewnielsenius is monobasic.

Distribution: 

Mexico and the United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas).

Important References: 

Reinert et al., 2004 (phylogenetic relationships); Reinert et al., 2006 (subgeneric status, genus Ochlerotatus); Reinert et al., 2008 (phylogenetic relationships); Reinert et al., 2009 (generic status, phylogeny).

Included Taxa: 
muelleri (Dyar, 1920)
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