Species Verrallina (Verrallina) carmenti (Edwards, 1924)

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• Aedes (Aedes) carmenti Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [388].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ adult (abdomen and genitalia missing), Maravovo, Guadalcanal (as Guadalcanar), Solomon Ils.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 6♀ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Belkin, J.N. 1962. The Mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae). Berkeley & Los Angeles, USA : Univ. Calif. Press Vol. 1. [416].
• Aedes (Aedes) ceramensis Brug, S.L. 1934. Notes on Dutch East Indian mosquitoes. Bulletin of Entomological Research 25: 501-519 [512].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ adult (genitalia, leg and two tarsi only on pinned mount), Oewin, Ceram, Indonesia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ adult (genitalia only, on pinned mount).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Reinert, J.F. 1974. A new interpretation of the subgenus Verrallina of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 11(1): 1-249 [33].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [115]
• Belkin, J.N. 1962. The Mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae). Berkeley & Los Angeles, USA : Univ. Calif. Press Vol. 1. [416] (resurrection from synonymy)
• Reinert, J.F. 1974. A new interpretation of the subgenus Verrallina of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 11(1): 1-249 [28]

Generic Combinations

• Aedes (Verrallina) carmenti Edwards, 1924. —
  Reinert, J.F. 1974. A new interpretation of the subgenus Verrallina of the genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 11(1): 1-249
• Verrallina (Verallina) carmenti (Edwards, 1924). —
  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

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), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

A common day-biting species and readily attacks humans; adult females caught in malaise and light traps; considered a serious pest in New Guinea; isolation of Eubenangee and ephemeral fever viruses from collections; larva found in shaded jungle pools, ground pools in sago swamps, jungle and forest, swamps in virgin forest and temporary ground pools with decaying vegetation on the bottom.

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. [265] (literature, distribution, biology)

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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