Species Aedes (Lorrainea) dasyorrhus King & Hoogstraal, 1946

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Skusea) dasyorrhus King, W.V. & Hoogstraal, H. 1946. Three new species of Aedes from Netherlands New Guinea. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 48: 95-106 [100].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂ adult, Cape Tjeweri, Jatufa Bay, Hollandia, West Irian.
  Paratype(s) USNM 4♂ 4♀ adults, 2 larvae (with 6 larval exuviae).

Generic Combinations

• Lorrainea dasyorrhus (King & Hoogstraal, 1946). —
  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 [360]
• Aedes (Lorrainea) dasyorrhus King & Hoogstraal, 1946. —
  Belkin, J.N. 1962. The Mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae). Berkeley & Los Angeles, USA : Univ. Calif. Press Vol. 1. [430]
  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]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Coastal.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult collected biting humans at night; larva found in tree holes, logs, coconut shells, cans at edge of mangrove swamp and artificial containers such as canoes, tyres, metal containers and tins; found breeding in thick black salty mud in mangrove tree holes.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Russell, R.C. & Marks, E.N. 1984. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedes. Subgenera Geoskusea, Halaedes, Huaedes, Leptosomatomyia, Levua, Lorrainea, Macleaya, Mucidus, Neomelaniconion, Nothoskusea, Ochlerotatus, Paraedes, Pseudoskusea, Rhinoskusea. Commonwealth Institute of Health. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 3 257 pp. [52] (literature, distribution, biology)

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