Species Culex (Culex) globocoxitus Dobrotworsky, 1953

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• Culex globocoxitus Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1953. The Culex pipiens group in south-eastern Australia. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 77: 357-360 [357].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins), Williamstown, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult female does not normally bite humans but may feed on birds and rabbits; adults taken from rabbit burrows; capable of carrying Murray Valley encephalitis virus under laboratory conditions and may be involved in transmission between animals; larva found in open swamps, grassy ground pools, drainage pits, waterholes and artificial containers such as tanks, troughs and wells; can tolerate brackish and polluted water.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Acallyntrum, Culex. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 281 pp. [126] (literature, distribution, biology)

Russell, R.C. 1993. Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Disease in Southeastern Australia. A guide to the biology, relation to disease, surveillance, control and the identification of mosquitoes in southeastern Australia. New South Wales : Published privately by Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead 195 pp. [10.142] (biology)

 

History of changes

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