Species Verrallina (Verrallina) lineata (Taylor, 1914)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leipidotomyia lineatus Taylor, F.H. 1914. Culicidae from Papua. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1914: 185-205 [191].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Lakekamu Gold Field, New Guinea (Papua New Guinea).
• Skusea funerea ornata Theobald, F.V. 1905. A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with descriptions of new genera and species. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 3: 61-120 [79] [originally described as Skusea funerea var. ornata Theobald, 1905; junior secondary homonym of Culex ornatus Meigen, 1818 (= Aedes (Finlaya) geniculatus (Olivier, 1791))].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNH 8♀ adults, Sattelberg, Huon Golf and Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea (Papua New Guinea).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, F.W. 1921. Mosquito notes.—II. Bulletin of Entomological Research 12: 69-80 [76]

Generic Combinations

• Verrallina (Verrallina) lineata (Taylor, 1914). —
  Reinert, J.F. 1999. Restoration of Verrallina to generic rank in tribe Aedini (Diptera: Cuilicidae) and descriptions of the genus and three included subgenera. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 31: 1-83
• Aedes (Verrallina) lineatus (Taylor, 1914). —
  Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1987. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedes. Subgenera II. Scutomyia, Stegomyia, Verrallina. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 324 pp.
• Aedes (Aedes) lineatus (Taylor, 1914). —
  King, W.V. & Hoogstraal, H. 1947. New Guinea species of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, subgenus Aedes. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 37: 113-134
• Leipidotomyia lineatus Taylor, 1914.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult collected in chicken-baited, malaise and light traps and is a common, vicious daytime biter that attacks humans; larva and immature stages found in temporary ground pools with or without grass, pools in or near sago swamps, marshes, grass-covered plantation drains, taro irrigation channels, taro swamp gardens, puddles, creek pot holes, rock holes, muddy ditches, road ruts, pools at border of jungle, swampy areas and artificial containers.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1987. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedes. Subgenera II. Scutomyia, Stegomyia, Verrallina. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 324 pp. [287] (literature, distribution, biology)

Wilkerson, R.C., Linton, Y-M., Fonseca, D.M., Schultz, T.R., Price, D.C., & Strickman, D.A. 2015. Making mosquito taxonomy useful: a stable classification of tribe Aedini that balances utility with current knowledge of evolutionary relationships. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 10(7): e0133602 [appendix S1]

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