Species 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') britteni Marks & Hodgkin, 1958

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Finlaya) britteni Marks, E.N. & Hodgkin, E.P. 1958. A new species of Aëdes (Finlaya) from northern Australia (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83: 33-39 [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ ♀ adult (with associated larval skin), Kalumburu (Drysdale River Mission), WA.

 

Generic Combinations

• 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') britteni (Marks & Hodgkin, 1958) [sensu auctorum]. —
  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

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, tree hole.

Extra Ecological Information

Type series bred from larvae taken in a rot hole in Baobab tree, Adansonia gregorii F.Muell. [Bombacaceae], where they were being preyed upon by the larvae of Aedes (Finlaya) purpureus (Theobald, 1910).

 

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. [130] (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

 

History of changes

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29-Nov-2011		29-Nov-2011	MOVED
29-Nov-2011		29-Nov-2011	MOVED
20-Apr-2012		29-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
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