Species Aedes (Finlaya) alocasicola Marks, 1947

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Finlaya) alocasicola Marks, E.N. 1947. Studies of Queensland mosquitoes. 1. The Aëdes (Finlaya) kochi group with descriptions of new species from Queensland, Bougainville and Fiji. Papers of the Department of Biology University of Queensland 2(5): 1-66 [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ ♂ adult, Mount Glorious, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ 16♂ 7♀ adults, 4 morphotype larvae; ANIC 3♂ 3♀ adults, 2 morphotype larvae; BMNH ♂ ♀ adults and morphotype larva; USNM ♂ ♀ adults and morphotype larva; QM ♂ ♀ adults.

 

Generic Combinations

• Finlaya alocasicola (Marks, 1947). —
  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

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, phytotelmata.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in rainforest and drier rainforest dominated by hoop pine, Araucaria cunninghamii L. [Araucariaceae], adult female bites humans; larva always breeding in axils of cunjevoi, Alocasia macrorrhiza Cunn. [Araceae] plants.

 

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. [108] (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

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Sep-2016	AEDINI	16-Sep-2016	MODIFIED
20-Apr-2012		20-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)