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- 1 2 3 4 5 John F. Reinert. 2000. Description of Fredwardsius, a new subgenus of Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae). European Mosquito Bulletin, 6: 1-7; http://www.e-m-b.org/sites/e-m-b.org/files/European_Mosquito_Bulletin_Publications811/EMB06/EMB06_01.pdf.
- ↑ Norbert Becker, Dušan Petrić, Marija Zgomba, Clive Boase, Minoo Madon, Christine Dahl and Achim Kaiser. 2010. Mosquitoes and Their Control. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. P. 204; https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSDaBwAAQBAJ&q=vittatus+monotypic.&pg=PA204
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