History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• 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. [2] (key to females in the Australian Region)

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

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. [1] (literature, taxonomy, distribution)

History of changes

• Anopheles Meigen, J.W. 1818. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Erster Theil. Aachen : F.W. Forstmann xxxvi 332 pp. [10].

  Type species:

   Anopheles maculipennis Meigen, 1818 by subsequent designation, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1959. Opinion 547. Designation under the plenary powers of a type-species in harmony with accustomed usage for the nominal genus 'Anopheles' Meigen, 1818 (Class Insecta, Order Diptera). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 20: 153-164 [155].
• Myzorhynchus Blanchard, R. 1902. Nouvelle note sur les moustiques. Compte Rendu des Séances de la Société de Biologie, Paris 54: 793-795 [795].

  Type species:

   Anopheles sinensis Wiedemann, 1828 by original designation.

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. [11] (also extralimital synonymies)

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CULICIDAE: Anopheles (Anopheles) barbirostris van der Wulp, 1884 — 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. [2] (literature, biology, distribution); 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. [192] (distribution)

CULICIDAE: Anopheles (Anopheles) insulaeflorum Swellengrebel & Swellengrebel-de-Graaf, 1920 — 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. [192] (literature, distribution, biology)

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), 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), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

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. [191] (distribution)

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. [3] (literature, taxonomy, distribution, key to females in the Australian Region)

History of changes

• Anopheles atratipes 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 [1755].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀ adult (allotype male designated by Mackerras, I.M. 1927. Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). Part i. The Anophelini of the mainland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 52(2): 33–41 [38] has no type status), Berowra, NSW.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Flinders Island, King Island.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult day-biting and attacks humans, cattle and sheep near larval habitats, larva found in ground pools, freshwater sedge marshes and tea-tree swamps, muddy creeks, in deep, clear pools in heath flats, pools and streams thick with vegetation.

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. [16] (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. [10.109] (biology)

Theobald, F.V. 1901. The classification of mosquitoes. Journal of Tropical Medicine 4: 229-235 (common incorrect subsequent spelling as Anopheles atripes Skuse, 1889)

History of changes

• Anopheles bancroftii Giles, G.M. 1902. A Handbook of the Gnats or Mosquitoes giving the anatomy and life history of the Culicidae together with descriptions of all species noticed up to the present date. Second edition, rewritten and enlarged. London : J. Bale, Sons & Danielsson 2. [511].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Burpengary (as Burpengarry), QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult caught in light and animal-baited traps, attacks humans, cattle, dogs, pigs, horses, cats, kangaroos and fowl, potential vector of Plasmodium vivax (malaria) and Wuchereria bancrofti larvae (filariasis), isolation of Koongool, Kunjin, Eubenangee and Bovine ephemeral fever arboviruses from collections; larva found in shaded, heavily vegetated, permanent water collections such as freshwater hyacinth swamps, waterholes, stream margins, seepage ponds, rice fields, flowing streams and ponded streams, for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1987: 35).

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. [192] (common incorrect subsequent spelling as bancrofti)

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. [22] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles colledgei 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 [41].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ ♀ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins), Rex Creek, Mossman, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ 13♂ 8♀ adults, 14 morphotype larvae; BMNH ♂ ♀ adults, 2 larvae; USNM ♂ ♀ adults, 2 larvae; ANIC 2♂ 2♀ adults, 4 larvae; QM ♂ ♀ adults, 2 larvae; MMUS ♂ ♀ adults, 2 larvae; NMV ♂ ♀ adults, 2 larvae.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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, lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva found in running creeks with some green algal growth.

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. [52] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• 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

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

• Anopheles (Anopheles) powelli Lee, D.J. 1944. A new species of the genus Anopheles from northern Australia (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 69: 21-25 [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (with associated larval skin), Adelaide River, NT.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♂ ♀ adults (with associated larval skins).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult females bites humans and horses, collected in light traps; larva found in shallow overgrown swampy pools with tall grass, flowing streams amongst grass or leaves at the edges, shaded rock pools and seepage pools.

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. [80] (literature, distrbution, biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles pseudobarbirostris Ludlow, C.S. 1902. Two Philippine mosquitoes. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 10: 127-131 [129].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM ♀ adult, Hagonoy, Bulacan (Luzon), Philippine Ils.
  Paralectotype(s) USNM ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stone, A. & Knight, K.L. 1956. Type specimens of mosquitoes in the United States National Museum: III. The genera Anopheles and Chagasia (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46: 276-280 [279].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, lentic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult collected biting humans and in window traps, experimental infection with Brugia malayi; larva found in clear pools with abundant aquatic vegetation, large permanent, well-vegetated bodies of clear, shaded water, pools and backwaters.

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. [83] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles pseudostigmaticus Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1957. Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). II. Notes on Anopheles stigmaticus Skuse and description of new species of Anopheles from Australia and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 82: 180-188 [184].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins), Maroondah, VIC.
  Paratype(s) NMV 6♂ 7♀ adults (with associated larval and pupal skins); ANIC ♂ ♀ adults (with associated larval and pupal skins); MMUS ♂ ♀ adults (with associated larval and pupal skins); EUQ ♂ ♀ adults (with associated larval and pupal skins); BMNH ♂ ♀ adults (with associated larval and pupal skins); USNM ♂ ♀ adults (with associated larval and pupal skins).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult feeds on marsupials and humans, known from reared specimens and occasionally collected in dry-ice baited traps; larva found in ground pools, rock pools, marshes, grassy edges of swamps, slow running water in roadside ditch, running creeks, muddy pools, temporary rain-filled pools, artificial containers and fallen palm fronds.

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. [89] (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. [10.112] (biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles stigmaticus 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 [1758].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♂ ♀ adults (10 specimens in original type series), Blue Mountains, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea records refer to A. papuensis according to 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. [99].

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult feeds on marsupials, laboratory transmission and potential vector of malaria according to Lee et al. (1987: 100, 102); larva found in clean flowing creeks in rainforest, stream-fed pools, backwaters, ground pools, rock pools in creeklines in rainforest and open eucalypt forests, margins of sluggish streams and pits in drying-out creeks.

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. [95] (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. [10.115] (biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles (Anopheles) tasmaniensis Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1966. Mosquitoes of Tasmania and Bass Straits Islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 91: 121-146 [130].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins), Birralee, TAS.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 9♀ adults; NMV ♀ adult; EUQ ♀ adult; BMNH ♀ adult; USNM ♀ adult.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva found in tea-tree swamps.

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. [103] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Cellia Theobald, F.V. 1902. The classification of the Anophelina. Journal of Tropical Medicine 5: 181-183 [181].

  Type species:

   Anopheles pharoensis Theobald, 1901 by original designation.
• Myzomyia Blanchard, R. 1902. Nouvelle note sur les moustiques. Compte Rendu des Séances de la Société de Biologie, Paris 54: 793-795 [795].

  Type species:

   Anopheles rossii Giles, 1899 by original designation (= Anopheles subpictus Grassi, 1899).
• Neomyzomyia Theobald, F.V. 1910. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 5 646 pp. [29].

  Type species:

   Myzomyia elegans James, 1903 by monotypy.
• Palaeomyzomyia Swellengrebel, N.H. & Rodenwaldt, E. 1932. Die anophelen von Niederländisch-Ostindien. Jena : Gustav Fischer. [114] [originally introduced as a subgenus of Anopheles Meigen, 1818].

  Type species:

   Myzomyia parangensis Ludlow, 1914 by monotypy.

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. [32] (extralimital synonymies)
• 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. [192]

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CULICIDAE: Anopheles (Cellia) subpictus Grassi, 1899 — 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. [294] (a specimen was collected from a plane at Darwin Airport, NT)

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Ils, Vanuatu, Afrotropical, Mediterranean and Oriental Regions.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

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. [109] (literature, taxonomy, distribution, key to females in the Australian Region)

History of changes

• Anopheles amictus Edwards, F.W. 1921. Mosquito notes.—II. Bulletin of Entomological Research 12: 69-80 [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Townsville, QLD.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂ adult.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), 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), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), 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 Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult collected from rabbit burrows, light and animal-baited traps, attacks humans, domestic animals, rabbits, marsupials, poultry and wild birds, will attack during the day close to larval habitats, but predominantly nocturnal biter, potential vector of Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum (malaria), transmission of the malarial parasite Plasmodium berghei of the African tree rat (Thamnomys surdaster sp.), possible vector of Wuchereria bancrofti (filariasis) and Bovine ephemeral fever (in cattle), natural infection with Dirofilaria immitis (canine heartworm), important vector of myxomatosis in rabbits, isolation of Fowlpox, Kowanyama, Getah, Trubanaman, Mapputta, Tilligerry, Ross River and Sindbis arboviruses from collections; larva found in temporary, semi-permanent and permanent ground pools, swamp margins, rock pools, shallow muddy pools, soakage holes, slit trenches, rice fields and amongst green algae in fresh, running water. For extensive biological information, see Lee et al. (1987: 128).

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. [121] (literature, distribution, biology)

Williams, C.R. & Kokkinn, M.J. 2000. Records of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Cooper Basin of north-eastern South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 124: 45-47

History of changes

• Anopheles annulipes Walker, F. 1856. Diptera. Part V. pp. 415–474 in, Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., & c. London : Van Voorst Vol. 1. 474 pp. [433].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, TAS (as Van Diemen's Land).
• Anopheles musivus 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 [1754].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Elizabeth Bay, near Sydney and Mount Kembla, Illawarra, NSW.
• Anopheles mastersi 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 [1757] [originally described as Anopheles Mastersi].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♂ ♀ 3 adults (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Blue Mountains, NSW.
• Anopheles (Myzomyia) perplexus Taylor, F.H. 1943. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68: 153-157 [153].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♂ adult, Adelaide River, NT.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation 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. [136].
• Anopheles (Myzomyia) perplexus persimilis Taylor, F.H. 1943. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68: 153-157 [153] [originally described as Anopheles (Myzomyia) perplexus var. persimilis].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Irvinebank, QLD.
• Anopheles (Myzomyia) derricki Taylor, F.H. 1943. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68: 153-157 [155].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♂ adult, Irvinebank, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC ♂ ♀ adults.

  Subsequent designation 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. [136].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [136] (lists the complete history of all synonymi)

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread Australia.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva found in a wide range of temporary and permanent water bodies with emergent, marginal vegetation such as freshwater ground pools, rice fields, uncovered wells, waterholes, ponds, marshes, swamps, rock pools, puddles, amongst green filamentous algae in streams and artificial containers; larvae are cannibalistic, for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1987: 155).

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. [193] (common incorrect subsequent spelling as Anopheles masteri, A. muscivus, A. musicus)

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. [136] (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. [10.106] (biology)

Williams, C.R. & Kokkinn, M.J. 2000. Records of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Cooper Basin of north-eastern South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 124: 45-47

Common Name References

Bancroft, T.L. 1908. List of the mosquitoes of Queensland, with the original descriptions and notes on the life-history of a number. Annals of the Queensland Museum 8: 1-64 [10] (Spear Mosquito)

History of changes

• Anopheles farauti Laveran, A. 1902. Sur des culicides de Nouvelles-Hébrides. Compte Rendu des Séances de la Société de Biologie, Paris 54: 908-910 [908].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) PIP 6♀ adults (on three slides), Faureville, Efate, Vanuatu (as Ile Vaté, New Hebrides Ils).
• Nyssorrhynchus annulipes moluccensis Swellengrebel, N.H. & Swellengrebel-de Graaf, J.M.H. 1919. Addenda to bescription [sic] of larvea [sic] of Netherlands Indian anophelines. Mededeelingen van den Burgerlijken Geneeskundigen Dienst in Nederlandsch-Indië 9: 1-3 [1] [originally described as Nyssorrhynchus annulipes var. moluccensis].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀ adults, several localities in Moluccas and Irian Jaya.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rozeboom, L.E. & Knight, K.L. 1946. The punctulatus complex of Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Parasitology 32: 95-131 [95]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult predominantly night biter but recorded daytime biting, feeds on humans, dogs, pigs, horses, cats, cattle, goats, possums, kangaroos and birds, collected in light and animal-baited traps, important vector of Plasmodium vivax, P. falciparum and P. malariae (malaria) and Wuchereria bancrofti (filariasis) in some regions, isolation of Koongol, Kunjin and Eubenangee arboviruses from collections; larva found in semi-permanent ground water collections such as swamps, lagoons and ponds with emergent vegetation, borrow pits, pig wallows, garden pools, hot springs, pools along river and stream margins, coconuts shells, holes in a coral pit, brackish water with organic debris and artificial containers, for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1987: 187).

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. [165] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles amictus hilli Woodhill, A.R. & D.J. Lee 1944. The subspecies of Anopheles amictus Edwards (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 69: 62-66 [63] [originally described as a subspecies of Anopheles amictus Edwards, 1921].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Adelaide River, NT.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 33 adults, 22 larval morphotypes and series of eggs (type series all produced from one wild female which is included as a paratype).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult autogenous and bites humans, isolation of Plasmodium sporozoites from collections but no importance as a malaria vector, isolation of Ross River virus, favourable intermediate host for Wuchereria bancrofti (filariasis); larva found in polluted and brackish water, rice fields, muddy pools, slit trenches, shallow weedy margins of freshwater swamps and in pools with high salinity.

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. [199] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles (Cellia) hinesorum Schmidt, E.R., Foley, D.H., Hartel, G.F., Williams, G.M. & Bryan, J.H. 2001. Descriptions of the Anopheles (Cellia) farauti complex of sibling species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Australia. Bulletin of Entomological Research 91: 389–410 [400].

  Type data:

   Holotype UQIC EB18-5 ♀, Etty Bay, Queensland [17°34'S 146°06'E].
  Paratype(s) UQIC EB18-1 Numerous, Etty Bay, Queensland [17°34'S 146°06'E].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Anopheles farauti No. 2 [Frequently referred to in previous literature as Anopheles farauti No. 2, starting from 1971 up to 2000.].

Introduction

The authors provide a list of bibliographic references where the newly described taxon was previously referred to as A. farauti.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Anopheles meraukensis Venhuis, W.G. 1932. Een nieuwe anopheline, Anopheles meraukensis. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch--Indië 72: 1040-1042 [1040].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GLB ♂ ♀ adult and 1 larva (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Merauke, Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Indonesia).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult female bites humans and is active just after sunset, attacks cattle, humans, pigs, kangaroos, horses and dogs, collected in light, truck, carbon dioxide and animal-baited traps, isolation of Edge Hill, Mapputta, Warrego and NT 16701 viruses from collections, development of Plasmodium vivax (malaria) to oocyst stage, type female was taken indoors; larva collected from margins of grassy swamps in open country, muddy or clear pools with or without algal growth, tea-tree and Pandanus [Pandanaceae] swamps, wheel ruts, backwaters of rivers, edges of creeks, a bomb crater, artificial containers and rain-flooded rice fields with filamentous algae, for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1987: 253).

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. [248] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles punctulatus novaguinensis Venhuis, W.G. 1933. Een nieuwe varieteit van de superspecies An. punctulatus. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch--Indië 73: 203-206 [203] [originally described as Anopheles punctulatus var. novaguinensis].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GLB ♂ ♀ adult and 1 larva (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Between Kakajoe and Donggeap on the Merauke River, Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Indonesia).
• Anopheles (Myzomyia) breinli Taylor, F.H. 1943. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68: 153-157 [156].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Irvinebank, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Woodhill, A.R. & Lee, D.J. 1944. Some new records and new synonymy of Australian species of Anopheles (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 69: 67-72 [68]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult bites at sundown and feed on humans, buffalo and horses, collected in light, carbon dioxide and human-baited traps; larva found in ground pools in sago swamps, margins of grassy swamps, pools on heath flats, shallow water collections with abundant algal growth, shaded streams, a dam and rock well.

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. [193] (common incorrect subsequent spelling as novaginensis)

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. [258] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles punctulatus Dönitz, W. 1901. [Über Stechmhcken.] Nachrichten aus dem Berliner Entomologischen Verein. Insektenbörse 18: 36-38 [36].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB ♂ ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Stephansort (Bogadjim), Papua New Guinea and Herbertshöhe (Kokopo, New Britain), Bismark Archipelago.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

In Australia known from one specimen collected at Borroloola, NT see 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. [280].

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a nocturnal biter and feeds readily on humans and occasionally on guinea pigs, dogs, pigs and cats, vector of (Plasmodium falciparum, P. malariae and P. vivax) (malaria) sporozoites, possible vector of Wuchereria bancrofti (filariasis) to infective larval stage; larva found in temporary puddles, shallow pools of rainwater, roadside ditches, muddy pools and wheel ruts, for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1987: 281).

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. [267] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Anopheles (Cellia) torresiensis Schmidt, E.R., Foley, D.H., Hartel, G.F., Williams, G.M. & Bryan, J.H. 2001. Descriptions of the Anopheles (Cellia) farauti complex of sibling species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Australia. Bulletin of Entomological Research 91: 389–410 [400-402].

  Type data:

   Holotype UQIC JAB98/34-1 ♀, Jabiru, Northern Territory [12°40'S 132°50'E].
  Paratype(s) UQIC JAB98/34-2 Numerous, Jabiru, Northern Territory [12°40'S 132°50'E].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Anopheles farauti No. 3 [Anopheles torresiensis appeared in previous literature as A. farauti No.3, from 1982 to 2000.].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also recorded from Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Anopheles melanotarsis Woodhill, A.R & Lee, D.J. in Director General of Medical Services, Land Forces Headquarters 1943. Notes on Mosquito-borne Diseases in Australasia. Australian Military Forces. [marked `not to be published' therefore any new taxa listed are unavailable] [8] [nom. nud., see 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. (314)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

  Secondary source:

   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.

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Tenorio, J.A. 1977. Revision of the genus Bironella (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 14: 317-361 [317]
• Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 6 124 pp. [36] (key to females in the Australian Region)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Ils.

IBRA

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

Distribution References

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 6 124 pp. [35] (literature, taxonomy, distribution)

History of changes

• Bironella 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 [69].

  Type species:

   Bironella gracilis Theobald, 1905 by monotypy.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CULICIDAE: Bironella (Bironella) gracilis Theobald, 1905 — Tenorio, J.A. 1977. Revision of the genus Bironella (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 14: 317-361 [331]; Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 6 124 pp. [38] (literature, distribution, biology)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

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

Distribution References

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 6 124 pp. [37] (literature, taxonomy, distribution, key to females in the Australian Region)

History of changes

• Bironella simmondsi Tenorio, J.A. 1977. Revision of the genus Bironella (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 14: 317-361 [331].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ ♂ adult, Dinner Creek, Innisfail, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ ♀ adult; QIMR 3♂ 10♀ adults; ANIC 2♂ 4♀ adults; QM ♂ 2♀ adults; BMNH ♂ 2♀ adults; USNM ♂ 2♀ adults; BPBM ♂ 5♀ adults.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult occasionally taken biting humans; larva collected from a jungle pool, shaded pool in scrub, rock pool in mountain stream, in backwater of a creek in rainforest and pools among sedges at edge of jungle.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 6 124 pp. [44] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Neobironella Tenorio, J.A. 1977. Revision of the genus Bironella (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 14: 317-361 [345].

  Type species:

   Bironella confusa Bonne-Wepster, 1951 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

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

Distribution References

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 6 124 pp. [54] (literature, taxonomy, distribution, key to females in the Australian Region)

History of changes

• Stethomyia aitkenii papuae Swellengrebel, N.H. & Swellengrebel-de Graaf, J.M.H. 1919. Addenda to bescription [sic] of larvea [sic] of Netherlands Indian anophelines. Mededeelingen van den Burgerlijken Geneeskundigen Dienst in Nederlandsch-Indië 9: 1-3 [3] [as Stethomyia aitkenii var. papuae].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (originally described from larval material which is no longer extant, see Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 6 124 pp. [60]), Kokas and Kaimana, Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya).
• Bironella (Neobironella) brugi Soesilo, R. & van Slooten, J. 1931. Verspreide aantenkeningen over Anophelinen in den Oost-Indischen Archipel. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch--Indië 71: 1254-1259 [1256].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 21808 ♂ (with associated terminalia slide), Upper Digoel River, New Guinea (Irian Jaya).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tenorio, J.A. 1977. Revision of the genus Bironella (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 14: 317-361 [352] (extralimital synonymy)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult female recorded biting a human; larva found along the margins of slow and fast moving streams, small creeks, exposed and shaded pools and shallow edges of a rainforest stream.

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. [194] (common incorrect subsequent spelling as pupaae)

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 6 124 pp. [60] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes