6-534: The subgenus Kerteszia are Neotropical anopheline mosquitoes originally described in 1905 by Frederick V. Theobald as genus Kertészia with Kertészia boliviensis as the type species . Subgenus Kerteszia immatures develop primarily in the water in bromeliads , and less often in bamboo . They are distributed southward from the State of Veracruz in Mexico through Central America and Atlantic South America, along
12-540: The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit : This mosquito article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Subgenus In biology , a subgenus (plural: subgenera ) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus . In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature , a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name , in parentheses, placed between
18-455: The generic name and the specific epithet : e.g. the tiger cowry of the Indo-Pacific, Cypraea ( Cypraea ) tigris Linnaeus , which belongs to the subgenus Cypraea of the genus Cypraea . However, it is not mandatory, or even customary, when giving the name of a species, to include the subgeneric name. In the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICNafp),
24-736: The coast to Misiones Province in Argentina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and on the Pacific coast of South America to El Oro Province , Ecuador. The subgenus is absent from the West Indies islands except Trinidad and from most of the Amazon basin in South America. Several species of this subgenus are important primary vectors of human malarias , and other species are suspected vectors. Species listed by
30-399: The rank of the division within the genus. Connecting terms are usually abbreviated, e.g. "subg." for "subgenus", and are not italicized. In zoological nomenclature, when a genus is split into subgenera, the originally described population is retained as the "nominotypical subgenus" or "nominate subgenus", which repeats the same name as the genus. For example, Panthera ( Panthera ) pardus ,
36-459: The subgenus is one of the possible subdivisions of a genus. There is no limit to the number of divisions that are permitted within a genus by adding the prefix "sub-" or in other ways as long as no confusion can result. The secondary ranks of section and series are subordinate to subgenus. An example is Banksia subg. Isostylis , a subgenus of the large Australian genus Banksia . The ICNafp requires an explicit "connecting term" to indicate
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