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

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Finlaya) subauridorsum 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 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ ♀ adult (with associated pupal skins), Mt Mowbullan, Bunya Mountains, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ ♂ adult, 2 morphotype larvae (adult ♂ with associated pupal skins).

 

Generic Combinations

• 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') subauridorsum (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, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, tree hole.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a diurnal biter and attacks humans in open rainforest; type specimens reared from pupae taken from a cavity in a tree; immature stages found in cavity in trunk of living tree, rot hole in post, hollow bloodwood stump, hollow stump of Angophora [Myrtaceae] in eucalypt forest, tree hole in a box-tree and a log groove.

 

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. [255] (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

Russell, R.C. 1993. Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Disease in Southeastern Australia. A guide to the biology, relation to disease, surveillance, control and the identification of mosquitoes in southeastern Australia. New South Wales : Published privately by Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead 195 pp. [10.82] (biology)

 

History of changes

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