Species Aedes (Ochlerotatus) calcariae Marks, 1957

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• Aedes (Ochlerotatus) calcariae Marks, E.N. 1957. The subgenus Ochlerotatus in the Australian Region (Diptera: Culicidae) I. Notes on classification, with the description of a new species. Papers of the Department of Entomology University of Queensland 1: 71-83 [74].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Calcaria, near Lake Eliza, 7 miles S of Robe, SA.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 22♂ 13♀ adults, 6 morphotype larvae (♂ 2♀ paratypes with associated larval skins and 1 larval skin associated with pupa); EUQ 6♂ 4♀ adults and 1 larva (one ♂ adult with correlated skins); QM ♂ ♀ adults; ANIC(MMUS) ♂ ♀ adults; NMV ♂ ♀ adults; USNM ♂ ♀ adults; SAMA ♂ ♀ adults; BMNH 2♂ ♀ adults and 1 larva.

 

Generic Combinations

• Aedes (Ochlerotatus) calcariae Marks, 1957. —
  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]
• Ochlerotatus (Pholeomyia) calcariae (Marks, 1957). —
  Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2008 [2007]. Phylogeny and classification of Ochlerotatus and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 29-114 [Date published 2008] [112]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult day-biting and attacks rabbits and occasionally humans; larva found in shaded ground pools but more often associated with rabbit and crayfish holes (or possibly wombat burrows) and pits under fallen tree roots; all larvae found in South Australia have been in or associated with flooded rabbit holes with fresh water contaminated with rabbit faeces.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Russell, R.C. & Marks, E.N. 1984. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedes. Subgenera Geoskusea, Halaedes, Huaedes, Leptosomatomyia, Levua, Lorrainea, Macleaya, Mucidus, Neomelaniconion, Nothoskusea, Ochlerotatus, Paraedes, Pseudoskusea, Rhinoskusea. Commonwealth Institute of Health. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 3 257 pp. [131] (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. [10.28] (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Sep-2016	AEDINI	22-Jun-2016	MODIFIED
07-Oct-2011		07-Oct-2011	MOVED
20-Apr-2012		15-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)