Species Aedes (Finlaya) dobrotworskyi Marks, 1958

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• Aedes (Finlaya) dobrotworskyi 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 [65].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ P.1686 ♂ adult, Barham Valley, Apollo Bay, Otway, VIC.
  Paratype(s) EUQ 1♂ 9♀ adults, 2 morphotype larvae and morphotype pupa; NMV ♂ 8♀ adults, 2 morphotype larvae; ANIC ♂ 5♀ adults and morphotype larva; BMNH 2♀ adults; USNM 2♀ adults.

 

Generic Combinations

• Aedes (Finlaya) dobrotworskyi 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 dobrotworskyi (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

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic, phytotelmata.

Extra Ecological Information

Along rivers and marshland; adult day-biting and attacks humans; adults found in rabbit warrens; pest menace in or close to habitat; larva collected from leaf axils of sword grass (Gahnia sp. [Cyperaceae]) in swampy bush.

 

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. [139] (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. [10.43] (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Sep-2016	AEDINI	22-Jun-2016	MODIFIED
11-Oct-2011		11-Oct-2011	MOVED
20-Apr-2012		15-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)