Species Verrallina (Verrallina) cunninghami (Taylor, 1944)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aedes (Aedes) cunninghami Taylor, F.H. 1944. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 69: 120-128 [123] [nom. nov. for Skusea bancrofti Taylor, 1914].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Skusea bancrofti Taylor, F.H. 1914. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 454-468 [465] [junior homonym of Culex bancrofti Skuse, 1889 (= Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762))].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♂ ♀ adult (number of specimens not stated in original description), Eidsvold, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Taylor, F.H. 1944. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 69: 120-128 [123]

 

Generic Combinations

• Aedes (Verrallina) cunninghami Taylor, 1944.
• Verrallina (Verrallina) cunninghami (Taylor, 1944). —
  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

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: nothing known.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult collected from a creek with a number of large, water-worn holes filled with 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. [271] (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]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Apr-2012		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)