Species Verrallina (Verrallina) reesi (King & Hoogstraal, 1947)
- Aedes (Verrallina) reesi King, W.V. & Hoogstraal, H. 1947. New Guinea species of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, subgenus Aedes. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 37: 113-134 [127].
Type data:
Holotype USNM ♂ adult (with genitalia on slide), Vivigani, Goodenough Island, Papua New Guinea (as Southeast New Guinea).
Generic Combinations
- Verrallina (Verrallina) reesi (King & Hoogstraal, 1947). —
Reinert, J.F. 1999. Restoration of Verrallina to generic rank in tribe Aedini (Diptera: Cuilicidae) and descriptions of the genus and three included subgenera. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 31: 1-83 - Aedes (Verrallina) reesi King & Hoogstraal, 1947.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), 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 females taken from carbon dioxide, malaise, light and animal-baited traps; adult feeds on buffalo, cattle, humans and marsupials and seems to be a general mammal feeder; immature stages found in small, muddy, temporary pools.
General References
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]
History of changes
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12-Feb-2010 | (import) |