Species Aedes (Ochlerotatus) vigilax (Skuse, 1889)
Black Bush-mosquito, Salt-marsh Mosquito
- Culex vigilax 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 [1731] [conserved by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1972. Opinion 979. Culex albirostris Macquart, 1850 (Insecta, Diptera): suppressed under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 29: 11–12 (11)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♀ adults (number of specimens not stated in original description), Gosford, Kiama, and National Park, NSW and Brisbane, QLD. - Culex albirostris Macquart, J. 1850. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1849(2): 309-479 [reprinted with pagination 5–161, Roret, Paris. The reprint version includes only pp. 309–465 of the original journal article] [314] [suppressed by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1972. Opinion 979. Culex albirostris Macquart, 1850 (Insecta, Diptera): suppressed under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 29: 11–12 (11); on p. 10 of the reprint edition].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP ♀ adult, NSW.Subsequent designation references:
Klein, J.-M. & Marks, E.N. 1960. Australian mosquitoes described by Macquart. I. Species in the Paris Museum, Aedes (Finlaya) alboannulatus (Macquart), Aedes (Finlaya) rubrithorax (Macquart), Aedes (Ochlerotatus) albirostris (Macquart). New synonymy and a new species from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 85: 107-116 [112].Type locality references:
Klein, J.-M. & Marks, E.N. 1960. Australian mosquitoes described by Macquart. I. Species in the Paris Museum, Aedes (Finlaya) alboannulatus (Macquart), Aedes (Finlaya) rubrithorax (Macquart), Aedes (Ochlerotatus) albirostris (Macquart). New synonymy and a new species from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 85: 107-116 [112] (Macquart gave the type locality as Akaroa, New Zealand, however the type specimen also bears the label `Nlle Galle du Sud' in the handwriting of Verreaux the collector of the specimen). Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂ adult, QLD (as South Queensland).
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 5♂ 6♀ adults (legs of one further possible paralectotype on slide), Australia.Subsequent designation references:
Belkin, J.N. 1962. The Mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae). Berkeley & Los Angeles, USA : Univ. Calif. Press Vol. 1. [393].- Culicelsa pseudovigilax Theobald, F.V. 1907. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. Mainly compiled from the collections received at the British Museum from various parts of the world in connection with the investigation into the cause of malaria conducted by the Colonial Office and the Royal Society. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. II viii 391 pp. [382] [a nom. nov. for specimens incorrectly identified as Culicelsa vigilax (Skuse) by Theobald, F.V. 1901. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. Mainly compiled from the collections received at the British Museum from various parts of the world in connection with the investigation into the cause of malaria conducted by the Colonial Office and the Royal Society. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. II viii 391 pp. (395)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 6♂ 12♀ adults, Burpengary (as Bupengary), QLD. - Culicelsa uniformis Strickland, E.H. 1911. Some new Culicidae from Western Australia, South Queensland, and Tasmania. New species found in a small collection of mosquitoes from Western Australia. The Entomologist 44: 130-134 [131] [junior primary homonym of Culicelsa uniformis Theobald, 1910].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀ adult (both specimens in the type series were considered damaged when originally described), Perth, WA.
Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀ adult.Subsequent designation references:
Belkin, J.N. 1962. The Mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae). Berkeley & Los Angeles, USA : Univ. Calif. Press Vol. 1. [393].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Belkin, J.N. 1962. The Mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae). Berkeley & Los Angeles, USA : Univ. Calif. Press Vol. 1. [392] (extralimital synonymy)
- Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Russell, R.C. & Marks, E.N. 1984. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedes. Subgenera Geoskusea, Halaedes, Huaedes, Leptosomatomyia, Levua, Lorrainea, Macleaya, Mucidus, Neomelaniconion, Nothoskusea, Ochlerotatus, Paraedes, Pseudoskusea, Rhinoskusea. Commonwealth Institute of Health. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 3 257 pp. [207] (details of each taxonomic synonymy)
- Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2008 [2007]. Phylogeny and classification of Ochlerotatus and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 29-114 [Date published 2008]
Generic Combinations
- Ochlerotatus (Empihals) vigilax (Skuse, 1889). —
Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2008 [2007]. Phylogeny and classification of Ochlerotatus and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 29-114 [Date published 2008] [112] - Aedes (Ochlerotatus) vigilax (Skuse, 1889). —
Edwards, F.W. 1922. Mosquito notes.—III. Bulletin of Entomological Research 13: 75-102 [99]
Wilkerson, R.C., Linton, Y-M., Fonseca, D.M., Schultz, T.R., Price, D.C., & Strickman, D.A. 2015. Making mosquito taxonomy useful: a stable classification of tribe Aedini that balances utility with current knowledge of evolutionary relationships. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 10(7): e0133602 [appendix S1] - 'Ochlerotatus' ('Ochlerotatus') vigilax (Skuse, 1889). —
Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2006. Phylogeny and classification of Finlaya and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 1-101 [96]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Widespread Oriental Region.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), 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), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), 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), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: pest, volant.
Larva: aquatic.
Extra Ecological Information
Adult a vicious diurnal biter and readily attacks humans, rabbits, birds, sheep, cattle, horses and fowl; adults caught in light and truck traps; major coastal pest in Queensland, New South Wales and more northern areas and also parts of South Australia; variable vector of Wuchereria bancrofti (filariasis) depending on the microfilaria strain; principal vector of non-periodic filariasis in New Caledonia and probably the Loyalty Islands; major vector of Dirofilaria immitis (canine heartworm) and Murray Valley encephalitis, Ross River and Gan Gan arboviruses in coastal areas; isolation of various arboviruses from collections; possible vector of myxomatosis in coastal areas of Australia; larva found in permanent deep pools, freshwater habitats, saline water and temporary, brackish ground pools left in mudflat or marshland depressions by the highest (spring) monthly tides, often associated with areas behind mangroves such as samphire (Salicornia) or saltwater couch (Suaeda) [Chenopodiaceae] flats; for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1982: 223).
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. [198] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Aedes (Finlaya) vigilax)
Reinert, J.F., Harbach, R.E. & Kitching, I.J. 2008 [2007]. Phylogeny and classification of Ochlerotatus and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 29-114 [Date published 2008] (taxonomy, systematics, cladistics)
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] (Black Bush-mosquito)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-Sep-2016 | AEDINI | 22-Jun-2016 | MODIFIED | |
| 20-Sep-2011 | 20-Sep-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 20-Sep-2011 | 20-Sep-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 20-Apr-2012 | 15-Jun-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |