European Mosquito Bulletin, 1 (2003), 29 Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association

Update on the names of European mosquitoes I am grateful to Dr John Reinert for pointing out the omission of the subgenus Fredwardsius from the papers on the names of European mosquitoes published in this journal. Reinert (2000) compared Aedes vittatus with currently recognised subgenera and genera in the tribe Aedini and found that the species possesses unique and unusual features. He therefore established the new subgenus Fredwardsius within the genus Aedes, with Ae. vittatus as the type species. The subgenus is named after Frederick Edwards for his initial recognition of the distinctive features of Ae. vittatus and his outstanding work on the systematics of the Culicidae. Frederick Wallace Edwards was born in 1888 in Peterborough, England and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge. His distinguished career commenced in 1910 when he joined the Entomology Section of the British Museum (Natural History). He was in charge of Culicidae and was working at a time when there was an ever-growing interest in the group. He was an assiduous collector and made two major collecting expeditions to the Argentine and Chile in 1926 and to East Africa in 1934. He published on mosquitoes from home and abroad and on numerous other insect groups. In the course of his career he described over 2000 new species and wrote more than 350 titles occupying some 6000 pages of print together with 2000 of his own drawings. His classic work “A revision of the mosquitos of the Palaearctic region ” published in the Bulletin of Entomological Research in 1921 is a detailed 88-page paper in which he expertl