Species Aedes (Finlaya) gahnicola Marks, 1947

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Finlaya) gahnicola 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 [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ ♂ adult, Caloundra, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ 8♂ 4♀ adults, 11 morphotype larvae (some specimens with associated larval and pupal skins); ANIC ♂ ♀ adults and morphotype larva; BMNH ♂ ♀ adults and morphotype larva; USNM ♂ ♀ adults and morphotype larva; QM ♂ adult; ANIC(MMUS) ♂ adult and morphotype larva.

 

Generic Combinations

• Aedes (Finlaya) gahnicola Marks, 1947. —
  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 gahnicola (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: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic, phytotelmata.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a vicious biter and attacks humans in dry scrub, rainforest, semi-tropical and open eucalypt forests; pest nuisance for domestic environments near larval habitats; larva found among the bases of leaf axils of sword grass (Gahnia spp. [Cyperaceae]) and Pandanus [Pandanaceae] in coastal swamps.

 

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. [154] (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. [10.55] (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)