Species Anopheles (Cellia) novaguinensis Venhuis, 1933

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• Anopheles punctulatus novaguinensis Venhuis, W.G. 1933. Een nieuwe varieteit van de superspecies An. punctulatus. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch--Indië 73: 203-206 [203] [originally described as Anopheles punctulatus var. novaguinensis].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GLB ♂ ♀ adult and 1 larva (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Between Kakajoe and Donggeap on the Merauke River, Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Indonesia).
• Anopheles (Myzomyia) breinli Taylor, F.H. 1943. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68: 153-157 [156].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Irvinebank, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Woodhill, A.R. & Lee, D.J. 1944. Some new records and new synonymy of Australian species of Anopheles (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 69: 67-72 [68]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult bites at sundown and feed on humans, buffalo and horses, collected in light, carbon dioxide and human-baited traps; larva found in ground pools in sago swamps, margins of grassy swamps, pools on heath flats, shallow water collections with abundant algal growth, shaded streams, a dam and rock well.

General References

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 and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [193] (common incorrect subsequent spelling as novaginensis)

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 Anopheles. Subgenera Anopheles, Cellia. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 5 315 pp. [258] (literature, distribution, biology)

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