Species Verrallina (Verrallina) quadrispinata (King & Hoogstraal, 1947)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Verrallina) quadrispinatus 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 [126].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂ adult, Toem, Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Indonesia).

Generic Combinations

• Verrallina (Verrallina) quadrispinata (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

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Immature stages found in a swamp of virgin forest, forest pools and temporary ground pools containing fresh, clear water.

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. [309] (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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