Species 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') candidoscutellum (Marks, 1947)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Finlaya) candidoscutellum Marks, E.N. 1947. Studies of Queensland mosquitoes. 2. New species Aëdes (subgenus Finlaya). Pap. Dep. Biol. Univ. Queensl. 2(6) 10 pp. [1].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ ♀ adult, Binna Burra, Lamington National Park, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ 7♂ 8♀ adults, 2 morphotype larvae (some specimens with associated larval and pupal skins); ANIC ♂ 2♀ adults and morphotype larva (adult ♀ with associated larval and pupal skins); BMNH ♂ ♀ adults and morphotype larva (adult ♀ with associated larval and pupal skins); USNM ♂ ♀ adults and morphotype larva (adult ♀ with associated larval and pupal skins); QM ♂ ♀ adults; ANIC(MMUS) ♀ adult.

 

Generic Combinations

• 'Ochlerotatus' ('Finlaya') candidoscutellum (Marks, 1947). —
  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 [361]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

ACT and Murray-Darling basin distribution cited by Evenhuis, N.L. & Gon, S.M. III 1989. 22. Family Culicidae. pp. 191–218 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian Oceanian Region. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press; Leiden : E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [196].

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, tree hole.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult rarely seen and only one recorded attack on humans; larva found in tree holes in rainforest and rock hole in a boulder.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Russell, R.C. & Marks, E.N. 1982. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedeomyia. Genus Aedes. (Subgenera [Aedes], Aedimorphus, Chaetocruiomyia, Christophersiomyia, Edwardsaedes and Finlaya). Commonwealth Institute of Health. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 2 286 pp. [133] (literature, distribution, biology)

Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2006. Phylogeny and classification of Finlaya and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 1-101 (taxonomy)

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]

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

Reinert, J.F. & Harbach, R.E. 2005. Generic and subgeneric status of aedine mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) occurring in the Australasian region. Zootaxa 887: 1-10 [7]

 

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