This "publication" is the next, now fourth iteration of the mosquito systematic catalog. It is a compilation of Knight and Stone 1977 with all its supplements which built upon Stone, Knight and Starke 1959 and all of its supplements.
The personal computer and internet now permit the inclusion of many more citations and allows for the linking of the citations to electronic copies of the original literature, something that did not exist in 1977. Another advantage of computerization is that the catalog is no longer set in stone or type to be obsolete the day it was printed. It has now becomes a continuous "work in progress". This project began about five years ago and will never be finished, only more current than any of the previous printed versions of the catalog could ever be. When we put this catalog online in January of 2001, we believed it to be current to that time. It was with respect to the species described but we have since discovered that much distribution information was overlooked in the years since 1977. We are endeavoring to correct this but must alert users to the fact that species are probably more widespread than the catalog distributions indicate. A companion to this catalog is the "Reference Database" which contains, in addition to the literature cited in the 1977 catalog and its supplement, many additional papers from the reprint files of the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit. Within the Reference Database, "full text search" is available for all the included PDF files.
To assist us in this massive undertaking we ask users finding typo, errors and overlooked publications, to contact Thomas Gaffigan with the specific information.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: The creation of the online WRBU Systematics Catalog of Culicidae was in large part supported by COL Raj K. Gupta, formerly Director, Research Plans and Programs, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD. We also thank him for his continuous support to WRBU.
We also gratefully acknowledge invaluable assistance in this regard render by the following individuals:
Dr. Mohammed Aslam Khan, Pakistan
Dr. Maria Anice Mured Sallum, Univ. de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Graham White, UK
John Clancy, ICPMR, Westmead, Australia