Species Aedes (Stegomyia) katherinensis Woodhill, 1949

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• Aedes scutellaris katherinensis Woodhill, A.R. 1949. A new subspecies of Aëdes (Stegomyia) scutellaris Walker (Diptera, Culicidae) from northern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 74: 140-144 [141].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀,adult, Northern Territory, Katherine.
  Paratype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♂, adult, Northern Territory, Katherine.

 

Generic Combinations

• Aedes (Stegomyia) scutellaris katherinensis Woodhill, 1949.
• Stegomyia katherinensis (Woodhill, 1949). —
  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
• Aedes (Stegomyia) katherinensis Woodhill, 1949. —
  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, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult bites humans; larva found in bamboo stumps, tree hole in Adansonia gregorii F.Muell. (Baobab tree [Bombacaceae]), flower bracts of Curcuma australasica J.D.Hook. [Zingiberaceae], rain-filled containers and artificial containers.

 

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. [124] (literature, distribution, biology)

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Sep-2016	AEDINI	16-Sep-2016	MODIFIED
19-Apr-2012		19-Apr-2012	MOVED
20-Apr-2012		06-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)