Major recent changes to the classification of the Culicidae: The genus Bironella Theobald and its three subgenera have been included as part of Anopheles (Anopheles), as have the Anopheles subgenera Lophopodomyia and Stethomyia (Sallum et al, 2000). The genus Aedes has been split into two genera - Aedes and Ochlerotatus. The genera Ayurakitia and Verrallina have been restored to generic rank from subgenera of Aedes (Reinert, 2001). Onirion was described as a new sabethine genus in 2000 (Harbach & Peyton, 2000). Bruceharrisonius has been described as a new subgenus of Ochlerotatus (Reinert, 2003) and contains eight species transferred from the subgenus Finlaya.