Species Aedes (Stegomyia) edwardsi (Barraud, 1923)

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• Culex edwardsi Barraud, P.J. 1923. Two new species of Culex (Diptera, Culicidae) from Assam. Indian Journal of Medical Research 11: 507-509 [507].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (specimen not present in the BMNH, see Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Acallyntrum, Culex. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 281 pp. [117]), Shillong, Assam, India.

Generic Combinations

• Stegomyia (Actinothrix) edwardsi (Barraud, 1923). —
  Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2009. Phylogeny and classification of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157(4): 700-794
• Culex (Culex) edwardsi Barraud, 1923.
• Stegomyia edwardsi (Barraud, 1923). —
  Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2004. Phylogeny and classification of Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae), based on morphological characters of all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142: 289-368 [366]
• Aedes (Stegomyia) edwardsi (Barraud, 1923). —
  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]

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 feeds on humans and chickens; isolation of Oak Vale ephemeral fever, Sindbis and Corriparta viruses from collections; adults taken in chicken-baited, light, Rothamstead and truck traps; larva found in grassy swamp areas, seepages from springs, swift-running drains from irrigated crops.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Acallyntrum, Culex. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 281 pp. [117] (literature, distribution, biology)

Marks, E.N. 1971. Culex (Culex) barraudi Edwards 1922 and Culex (Culex) edwardsi Barraud 1923. Mosquito Systematics 3: 195-196 [systematics, diagnosis, life cycle and development]

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