Talk:Aedes aegypti

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The result of the debate was move back. —Nightstallion (?) 09:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

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Stegomyia aegypti → Aedes aegypti – {As another wikipedian has explained on the talk page, the reclassification of this mosquito as Stegomyia aegypti has not been widely accepted by the scientific community. Until this has been resolved, I think the article should keep the mosquito's current and accepted name, Aedes aegypti. I've prepared a revised copy of the article to be posted if the article is moved back to Aedes aegypti.} copied from the entry on the WP:RM page --Barefootmatt 19:40, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

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Although one article [1] has indeed proposed changing the genus Aedes to Stegomyia, the proposal has not been taken up by the majority of entomologists, epidemiologists, or biologists in general, nor by public health officials. An in-depth discussion of the reasons why not can be found at a dedicated online forum set up by the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit at the address below: http://wrbu.si.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9 (or similar discussions on the Mosq-L mailing list or ProMED) ... but one of the main non-technical objections is that the "old" name has been used by many public-health campaigns around the world for a very long time, and that the confusion resulting from an attempt to rename it would do more harm than good. There are also technical objections to the analysis and regarding the subjective interpretation of the results (see the above link).

Until these are resolved it would seem sensible to retain the old name and redirect the "Stegomyia aegypti" page to "Aedes aegypti", rather than vice versa. At the moment users of the new classification are in a definite minority, and a previous attempt to reclassify the Aedine mosquitoes by the same author in 2001 had little long-term success.

As an additional note, the same paper wants to rename "Aedes albopictus" to "Stegomyia albopicta", but I notice this has not been implemented :)

Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. and Kitching, I.J. 2004. Phylogeny and classification of Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae), based on morphological characters of all life stages. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 142: 289-368.

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