Species Anopheles (Anopheles) corethroides Theobald, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anopheles corethroides Theobald, F.V. 1907. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 4. [35].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Burpengary (as South Queensland), QLD.

  Type locality references:

  Marks, E.N. 1956. A new species of Anopheles from Queensland and notes on related species (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 67: 41-52 [49].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult recorded biting humans, types series bred from larvae in mixed collection obtained from a soak hole in a gully in scrub; larva found in tea-tree, gum and sedge swamps, shallow waterhole with vegetation, mountain streams, shallow peaty hollows and soak holes.

 

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 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. [54] (literature, distribution, biology)

 

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)