Species Anopheles (Anopheles) bancroftii Giles, 1902

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• Anopheles bancroftii Giles, G.M. 1902. A Handbook of the Gnats or Mosquitoes giving the anatomy and life history of the Culicidae together with descriptions of all species noticed up to the present date. Second edition, rewritten and enlarged. London : J. Bale, Sons & Danielsson 2. [511].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Burpengary (as Burpengarry), QLD.

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 caught in light and animal-baited traps, attacks humans, cattle, dogs, pigs, horses, cats, kangaroos and fowl, potential vector of Plasmodium vivax (malaria) and Wuchereria bancrofti larvae (filariasis), isolation of Koongool, Kunjin, Eubenangee and Bovine ephemeral fever arboviruses from collections; larva found in shaded, heavily vegetated, permanent water collections such as freshwater hyacinth swamps, waterholes, stream margins, seepage ponds, rice fields, flowing streams and ponded streams, for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1987: 35).

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. [192] (common incorrect subsequent spelling as bancrofti)

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. [22] (literature, distribution, biology)

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