Species 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') biocellatus (Taylor, 1914)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Culex biocellatus Taylor, F.H. 1914. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 454-468 [463].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Aedes (Finlaya) biocellatus (Taylor, 1914). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [381]
• 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') biocellatus (Taylor, 1914). —
  Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2004. Phylogeny and classification of Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae), based on morphological characters of all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142: 289-368 [361]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, tree hole.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult diurnal biters and occasionally bite humans; larva found in shaded water-holding cavities in trees or stumps, in some cases with a very heavy suspension of organic debris.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Russell, R.C. & Marks, E.N. 1982. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedeomyia. Genus Aedes. (Subgenera [Aedes], Aedimorphus, Chaetocruiomyia, Christophersiomyia, Edwardsaedes and Finlaya). Commonwealth Institute of Health. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 2 286 pp. [126] (literature, distribution, biology)

Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2006. Phylogeny and classification of Finlaya and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 1-101 [94]

Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2009. Phylogeny and classification of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157(4): 700-794

Reinert, J.F. & Harbach, R.E. 2005. Generic and subgeneric status of aedine mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) occurring in the Australasian region. Zootaxa 887: 1-10

 

History of changes

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20-Apr-2012		15-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
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