MOSQUITOES OF THE SUBGENUS FINLAYA-KNIGHT AND MAKKS 545 



medleri Knight and Laffooii iQ^^''^TrrnT 



Aedes (Finlaya) medleri Knight and LafFoon, 1946. Irans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 72, p. 211 (male, female, pupa, larva . 

 Type: Male (holotype) in U. S. N. M.* Type locai^itx: 1 hi - 

 ippines: Jinamoc Island (Leyte-Samar area) (Medler). 

 Habitat: Axils of pandanus, banana, taro, and abaca. 



poicilius (Theobald) Netherlands New Guinea ; Simalur ; Lombok : 

 ^ Java; Sumatra; Celebes; Borneo; 



Malaya ; Philippines ; Burma ; India 

 Finlaya poicilia Theobald, 1903. Monogi'aph of the Culicidae or 

 mosquitoes, vol. 3, p. 283 (female) . Type : Female (holotype) 

 in British Museum.* Type locality: Malay Pemnsula : 

 Penang (Freer) . Habitat : Axils of aroid-type plants, banana, 

 abaca, and pandanus. 



//-,.• u \ Samoa; Tonga 



samoanus (Grunberg) . ^ ^ . i 5^ 



Finlaya samoana Griinberg, 1913. Entomol. Rundschau, vol. 30 



p. 130 (female). Type: Four females (cotypes) m Zoological 



Museum, Berlin. Type locality : Samoa : Apia, Upolu (Fried- 



erichs). Habitat: Axils of Colocasia, Alocasia, and wild 



araceae. 



solomonis Stone and Bohart Solomon Islaiids 



Aedes {Finlaya) solomonis Stone and Bohart, 1944. Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. Washington, vol. 46, p. 208 (male, female, larva) . Type : 

 Male (holotvpe) in U.S.N.M.* Type locaoty: Solomon 

 Islands: Guadalcanal (Lechner). Habitat: Axils of palms 

 and tare. 



stonei Knight and Laffoon Philippines 



Aedes {FinUya) stonei Knight and Laffoon, 1946. Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 72, p. 208 (male, female, pupa, larva). Type: 

 Male (holotype) in U.S.N.M.* Type locality: Philippines: 

 Ducong, Basey Municipality, Samar Island (Zolik) . Habitat : 

 Axils of banana, pandanus, taro, and abaca. 



Wallace! Edwards New Ireland; New Guinea; New Britain 



A. (F.) wallacei Edwards, 1926. Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 17, p. 105 



(female). Type: Female (holotype) in British Museum.* 



Type LOCALrrY : New Ireland : Kavieng (Kaewung) (Wallace) . 



Habitat: Axils of banana, taro, pineapples, and pandanus. 



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