Subspecies Culex (Culex) annulirostris annulirostris Skuse, 1889

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• Culex annulirostris Skuse, F.A.A. 1889. Diptera of Australia. Part V.—The Culicidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1717-1764 [1737].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀ adult (Skuse saw two specimens, one from Blue Mountains and one from Berowra, NSW, see 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. [36]), Blue Mountains and Berowra, NSW.
• Culex somerseti Taylor, F.H. 1912. Appendix 6. Contribution to a knowledge of the Culicidae and Ixodidea of north Queensland and the Torres Strait. Annual Report of Community Public Health Queensland 1912: 27-29 [28].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Somerset, QLD.
• Culicelsa consimilis Taylor, F.H. 1913. Report of the entomologist. Reports of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine 1911: 49-74 [55] [junior primary homonym of Culicelsa consimilis Newstead, 1907].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Ayr, QLD.
• Culicelsa simplex Taylor, F.H. 1914. The Culicidae of Australia.—I. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1913: 683-708 [698] [junior primary homonym of Culicelsa simplex Theobald, 1903].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Townsville, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Knight, K.L. & Stone, A. 1977. A Catalog of the Mosquitoes of the World (Diptera: Culicidae). The Thomas Say Foundation. College Park, Maryland : Entomological Society of America Vol. 6. [241] (extralimital synonymies)
• 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. [36] (details of each taxonomic decision for synonymy)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Belau, Micronesia—Nauru.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult feeds on humans, domestic animals and a wide range of animals, marsupials and amphibians, primarily a broad-spectrum mammal feeder; adults are vicious diurnal and nocturnal biters; adults collected in light and animal-baited traps; major summer pest of inland riverine areas of south-eastern Australia, particularly in the Murray-Darling River basin; major vector of nocturnal periodic filariasis with a high rate of natural infection with Wuchereria bancrofti larvae; natural vector of Dirofilaria immitis (canine heartworm) and Oswaldofilaria chlamydosauri larvae; efficient vector of a wide range of arboviruses in Australia; vector of myxomatosis, birdpox, reticuloendotheliosis, reovirus type 3 viruses and Eperythrozoon ovis, a protozoan blood parasite of sheep; larva found in temporary and semi-permanent ground waters, waterholes, permanent freshwater swamps, lagoons, billabongs, transient grassy pools, salt marsh pools, waste water, ponds, ruts, drainage swamps, irrigation and earthen drainage channels, ditches, flooded pastures, seepage pools, human-made pools and artificial containers in either sunlit or shaded habitats, usually with aquatic or emergent vegetation; for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1989: 64).

 

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. [206] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

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. [36] (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. [10.127] (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Apr-2012		14-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
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