Species Aedes (Finlaya) kochi (Dönitz, 1901)

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• Culex kochi Dönitz, W. 1901. [Über Stechmhcken.] Nachrichten aus dem Berliner Entomologischen Verein. Insektenbörse 18: 36-38 [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♀ adult, Dreyer hafen b. Cap. Cretin, Papua New Guinea.

Generic Combinations

• Aedes (Finlaya) kochi (Dönitz, 1901). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [380]
  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 kochi (Dönitz, 1901). —
  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

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

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Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic, phytotelmata.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a fierce biter and attacks humans and horses; adults caught in light traps; pest nuisance for domestic environments near larval habitats; potential vector of Wuchereria bancrofti (filariasis) and minor vector of Dirofilaria immitis (canine heartworm); isolation of Eubenangee arbovirus from collections in Cairns and Innisfail, QLD; larvae found in leaf axils of a range of plants including banana, pineapple, taro (Colocasia [Araceae]), cunjevoi (Alocasia macrorrhiza L. [Araceae]), Crinum [Liliaceae], Pandanus [Pandanaceae], flower bracts of Curcuma australasica J.D.Hook [Zingiberaceae] and sago palms.

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. [180] (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)

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