Species 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') monocellatus (Marks, 1948)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Finlaya) monocellatus Marks, E.N. 1948. Studies of Queensland mosquitoes. Part III. The Aëdes (Finlaya) australiensis group. Papers of the Department of Biology University of Queensland 2(8): 1-42 [14].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ ♀ adult, Upper Cedar Creek, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ 8♂ 21♀ adults, 11 morphotype larvae; ANIC ♂ 2♀ adults and morphotype larva; BMNH ♂ ♀ adult and morphotype larva; USNM ♂ ♀ adult and morphotype larva; QM ♂ ♀ adult; ANIC(MMUS) ♀ adult.

 

Generic Combinations

• 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') monocellatus (Marks, 1948). —
  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

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, tree hole.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult attracted to humans; larva found in shaded water-holding cavities in branches, buttresses or roots of trees, in stumps and fallen logs in rainforest or dry scrub.

 

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. [192] (literature, distribution, biology)

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

 

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