Species Aedes (Finlaya) josephinae Marks, 1958

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• Aedes (Finlaya) josephinae Marks, E.N. 1958. New species and records of the Aedes kochi group from eastern Australia (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 69: 57-74 [58].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ P. 1314 ♂ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins), Skull Creek (10°56'S, 142°22'E), Cape York Peninsula, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ 2♂ 3♀ adults, 10 larval and 3 pupal morphotypes; QM ♂ ♀ adults, 2 morphotype larvae and morphotype pupal skin; ANIC 2♂ 2♀ adults, 4 morphotype larvae, 2 morphotype pupal skin; BMNH ♂ ♀ adults, 2 morphotype larvae and morphotype pupal skin; USNM ♀ adult, 2 morphotype larvae and morphotype pupa with male terminalia mount.

 

Generic Combinations

• Aedes (Finlaya) josephinae Marks, 1958. —
  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]
• Finlaya josephinae (Marks, 1958). —
  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 [358]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

In Australia known only from Cape York Peninsula, QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic, phytotelmata.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult bites human; leaf axil breeder found in Hanguana malayana [Hanguanaceae] plants growing along margins of a swampy creek on Cape York Peninsula, QLD.

 

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. [167] (literature, distribution, biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Sep-2016	AEDINI	22-Jun-2016	MODIFIED
20-Apr-2012		20-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)