Species Verrallina (Verrallina) similis (Theobald, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudoskusea similis Theobald, F.V. 1910. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 5 646 pp. [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Kuranda, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Aedes similis (Theobald, 1910). —
  Brug, S.L. & Haga, J. 1923. Aanteekening omtrent muskieten. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch--Indië 63: 635-640
• Aedes (Verrallina) similis (Theobald, 1910). —
  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.
• Verrallina (Verrallina) similis (Theobald, 1910). —
  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

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a vicious, persistent, daytime biter, attacking humans in forest, jungle and rainforest; adult males taken in malaise traps; immature stages collected in ground pools formed by buttress roots in flooded virgin forest, grassy rain-filled roadside gutters and temporary pools in side channel of a stream.

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]

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