Culex aegypti Linnaeus, 1762 (Insecta, Diptera); Proposed Validation and Interpretation Under the Plenary Powers of the Species So Named. Z.N.(S.) 1216

The purpose of the present application is to ask the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to use its plenary powers to such extent as may be necessary to provide a valid basis for the continued use of the name Culex aegypti Linnaeus, 1762, for the Yellow Fever Mosquito. Two problems are involved, for the foregoing name was published in a work which has been rejected by the International Commission for the purposes of zoological nomenclature and, as there seems no reasonable doubt, was applied by Linnaeus to an entirely different species. These questions are discussed separately in the following paragraphs.