Species Anopheles (Anopheles) pseudostigmaticus Dobrotworsky, 1957

• 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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Apr-2012		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)