Species Verrallina (Verrallina) funerea (Theobald, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Skusea funerea Theobald, F.V. 1903. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 xvii 359 pp. [292].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 7♀ adults (head, thorax and legs only of one on slide; number of syntypes not stated in original description), (Mrs Bell's scrub, Deception Bay), QLD.

  Type locality references:

  Bancroft, T.L. 1908. List of the mosquitoes of Queensland, with the original descriptions and notes on the life-history of a number. Annals of the Queensland Museum 8: 1-64 [55]; Townsend, B.C. 1990. Culicidae. pp. 35-152 in Townsend, B.C., Chainey, J.E., Crosskey, R.W., Pont, A.C., Lane, R.P., Boorman, J.P.T. & Lowry, C.A. A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 7: 1-371 [76] (type locality as Burpengary, QLD).
• Pseudoskusea basalis Taylor, F.H. 1912. Appendix 6. Contribution to a knowledge of the Culicidae and Ixodidea of north Queensland and the Torres Strait. Annual Report of Community Public Health Queensland 1912: 27-29 [27].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adults (number of specimens not stated in original description), Cooktown, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [388] (as Aedes (Aedes) funereus (Theobald, 1903))

Generic Combinations

• Verrallina (Verrallina) funerea (Theobald, 1903). —
  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) funereus (Theobald, 1903). —
  Brunetti, E. 1920. Catalogue of Oriental and South Asiatic Nemocera. Records of the Indian Museum 17: 1-300 [143]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a common daytime pest in areas close to mangrove and tea-tree/paperbark swamps; adult readily attacks humans, cattle, horses and other animals; adults collected in light traps; isolation of Ross River and Maprik viruses from collections; potential vector of arboviruses; larval found in ground pools of slightly brackish to freshwater, usually in swampy areas (tea-tree, mangrove and paperbark) and sedges adjoining tidal areas, ponds, puddles, borrow pits and temporary water collections; for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1987: 281).

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. [276] (literature, distribution, biology)

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. [10.49] (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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