Species Culex (Culex) whitmorei (Giles, 1904)

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• Taeniorhynchus whitmorei Giles, G.M. 1904. Notes on some collections of mosquitoes, &c., received from the Philippine Islands and Angola; with some incidental remarks upon classification. Journal of Tropical Medicine 7: 365-369 [367].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ adult (this species was described from 3 female syntypes, not a holotype; the specimen formerly referred to as the holotype was selected as a lectotype), Camp Stotsenburg, Pamplona, Philippines.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀ adults, Philippines.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Townsend, B.C. 1990. Culicidae. pp. 35-152 in Townsend, B.C., Chainey, J.E., Crosskey, R.W., Pont, A.C., Lane, R.P., Boorman, J.P.T. & Lowry, C.A. A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 7: 1-371 [151].

  Type locality references:

  Townsend, B.C. 1990. Culicidae. pp. 35-152 in Townsend, B.C., Chainey, J.E., Crosskey, R.W., Pont, A.C., Lane, R.P., Boorman, J.P.T. & Lowry, C.A. A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 7: 1-371 [151].

 

Generic Combinations

• Culex whitmorei (Giles, 1904). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1922. A synopsis of adult Oriental Culicine (including Megarhinine and Sabethine) mosquitoes. Part II. Indian Journal of Medical Research 10(2): 430-475 [471]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Palaearctic Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a pest, biting at dusk; adults collected resting indoors, in light and buffalo-baited traps; natural or preferred host is unknown; isolation of Japanese encephalitis from collections but no evidence as a vector; good vector of Wuchereria bancrofti based on experimental evidence; larva found in permanent and semi-permanent water collections with green filamentous algae such as ponded streams, ditches in rice fields, roadside seepage ponds, transient pools, swamps, slow-flowing rivulets, shallow pools and puddles.

 

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. [275] (literature, distribution, 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)