Species Aedeomyia (Aedeomyia) catasticta Knab, 1909

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• Aedeomyia catasticta Knab, F. 1909. Two new Philippine Culicidae. Entomological News 20: 386-388 [387].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM 12627 ♀ adult, Samal, Bataan, Philippines.
  Paralectotype(s) USNM 4♂ 2♀ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stone, A. & Knight, K.L. 1957. Type specimens of mosquitoes in the United States National Museum: VI. Miscellaneous genera, addenda, and summary. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 47: 196-202 [196].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), 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), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult taken in light, mercury vapour and animal-baited traps, does not bite humans, isolation of Alfuy and Corriparta arbovirus strains from collections; larva found in permanent and semi-permanent water collections with abundant and dense filamentous green algae such as swamps, lagoons, seepage ponds and ponded streams.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Russell, R.C. & Marks, E.N. 1982. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedeomyia. Genus Aedes. (Subgenera [Aedes], Aedimorphus, Chaetocruiomyia, Christophersiomyia, Edwardsaedes and Finlaya). Commonwealth Institute of Health. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 2 286 pp. [4] (literature, distribution, biology)

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