Species Coquillettidia (Coquillettidia) variegata (Dobrotworsky, 1963)

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Regional Maps

• Mansonia variegata Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1962. Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). VI. Five new Victorian species and a description of the larva of Aëdes milsoni (Taylor). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87: 291-302 [293].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂ adult, Cann River, VIC.
  Paratype(s) NMV ♀ adult, Cann River, VIC; ANIC ♀ adult, Cann River, VIC; EUQ ♀ adult, Cann River, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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: nothing known.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult active after sunset and bites humans; adults taken in light traps; larvae are unknown but almost certainly associated with permanent water bodies with marginal reeds/rushes and perhaps floating vegetation to which the larvae would attach; on circumstantial evidence, may be associated with brackish rather than freshwater habitats.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 6 124 pp. [113] (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. [10.121] (biology)

 

History of changes

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