Species Aedes (Ochlerotatus) stricklandi (Edwards, 1912)

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• Ochlerotatus stricklandi Edwards, F.W. 1912. A key to the Australasian species of Ochlerotatus (Culicidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 521-527 [523] [nom. nov. for Grabhamia australis Strickland, 1911].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Grabhamia australis Strickland, E.H. 1911. Some new Culicidae from Western Australia, South Queensland, and Tasmania. New species found in a small collection of mosquitoes from Western Australia. The Entomologist 44: 130-134 [133] [junior secondary homonym of Culex australis Erichson, 1842].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Serpentine, Darling Range, near Perth, WA.
• Grabhamia flindersi Taylor, F.H. 1914. The Culicidae of Australia.—I. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1913: 683-708 [686].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC 2♀ adults, Flinders Island, Bass Straits, near TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cooling, L.E. 1924. A synonymic list of the more important species of Culicidae of the Australian Region. Service Publication Department of Health Australian Tropical Division 2: 1-61 [24] (this reference cited in 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. [189])
• Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [377]

 

Generic Combinations

• Ochlerotatus (Lepidokeneon) stricklandi (Edwards, 1912). —
  Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2009. Phylogeny and classification of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157(4): 700-794 [774]
• Aedes (Ochlerotatus) stricklandi (Edwards, 1912). —
  Cooling, L.E. 1924. A synonymic list of the more important species of Culicidae of the Australian Region. Service Publication Department of Health Australian Tropical Division 2: 1-61 [189]
  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

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Only Flinders Island and King Island for TAS.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult female day-biting and readily attacks humans; minor pest only near larval habitats; larva found in temporary, freshwater ground pools in areas of predominantly winter rainfall.

 

General References

Cooling, L.E. 1924. A synonymic list of the more important species of Culicidae of the Australian Region. Service Publication Department of Health Australian Tropical Division 2: 1-61 [24] (this reference cited in Lee et al. (1982: 189))

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. [197] (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. [10.88] (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Sep-2016	AEDINI	22-Jun-2016	MODIFIED
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
20-Apr-2012		15-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		25-Aug-2010	MODIFIED