Species 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') australiensis (Theobald, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leucomyia australiensis Theobald, F.V. 1910. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 5 646 pp. [313].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Stannary Hills, QLD.
• Leucomyia australiensis papuensis Taylor, F.H. 1914. Culicidae from Papua. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1914: 185-205 [193].

  Secondary source:

   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 [21].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2006. Phylogeny and classification of Finlaya and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 1-101 [81]

 

Generic Combinations

• 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') australiensis (Theobald, 1910) [sensu auctorum]. —
  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 [361]
• Ochlerotatus australiensis (Theobald, 1910). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1912. A key to the Australasian species of Ochlerotatus (Culicidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 521-527
• Aedes (Ochlerotatus) australiensis (Theobald, 1910). —
  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 [21]
• Aedes (Finlaya) australiensis (Theobald, 1910). —
  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.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, tree hole.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult diurnal biter and recorded once biting humans; larva found in tree cavities, usually in dry scrubs (monsoon forest) and not in dense rainforest; bred from the washings of a dry rot hole in Planchonia careya F.Muell., cocky apple tree [Lecythidaceae].

 

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 [21] (this reference cited in Lee et al. (1982: 189), which also gives literature, distribution, biology)

Reinert, J.F. & Harbach, R.E. 2005. Generic and subgeneric status of aedine mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) occurring in the Australasian region. Zootaxa 887: 1-10

 

History of changes

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