Species Anopheles (Cellia) meraukensis Venhuis, 1932

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• 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 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 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)

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