Species Anopheles (Cellia) farauti Laveran, 1902

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• 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 and IMCRA regions

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)

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