Species Aedes (Ochlerotatus) culiciformis (Theobald, 1905)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Skusea culiciformis Theobald, F.V. 1905. A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with descriptions of new genera and species. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 3: 61-120 [77].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNH ♀ adult (type lost, labelled pin without specimen), Angabunga River (as Paumomu River), Papua New Guinea.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ochlerotatus (Pseudoskusea) culiciformis (Theobald, 1905). —
  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] [111]
• Aedes (Ochlerotatus) culiciformis (Theobald, 1905). —
  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]
• Aedes culiciformis (Theobald, 1905). —
  Brunetti, E. 1920. Catalogue of Oriental and South Asiatic Nemocera. Records of the Indian Museum 17: 1-300 [143]
• Pseudoskusea culiciformis (Theobald, 1905). —
  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 [26]
• 'Ochlerotatus' ('Pseudoskusea') culiciformis (Theobald, 1905) [sensu auctorum]. —
  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 [142]
• Aedes (Pseudoskusea) culiciformis (Theobald, 1905). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [386]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

See 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. [201] for presence in NT.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult caught biting humans, larva found in freshwater crab holes.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Russell, R.C. & Marks, E.N. 1984. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedes. Subgenera Geoskusea, Halaedes, Huaedes, Leptosomatomyia, Levua, Lorrainea, Macleaya, Mucidus, Neomelaniconion, Nothoskusea, Ochlerotatus, Paraedes, Pseudoskusea, Rhinoskusea. Commonwealth Institute of Health. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 3 257 pp. [247] (literature, distribution, biology)

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] (taxonomy, systematics, cladistics)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Sep-2016	AEDINI	22-Jun-2016	MODIFIED
21-Sep-2016		15-Nov-2011	MOVED
15-Nov-2011		15-Nov-2011	MOVED
21-Sep-2016		07-Oct-2011	MOVED
20-Apr-2012		15-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)