Species 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') keefei (King & Hoogstraal, 1946)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Finlaya) keefei King, W.V. & Hoogstraal, H. 1946. Descriptions of three new species of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, subgenus Finlaya, from New Guinea. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 36: 305-313 [311].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ adult, K.B. Mission, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

Generic Combinations

• 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') keefei (King & Hoogstraal, 1946). —
  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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva found in a stump hole, tree holes, coconut shell and shaded, clear water without vegetation.

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. [170] (literature, distribution, biology)

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 [7]

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