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Subspecies Culex (Culex) annulirostris annulirostris Skuse, 1889

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Belau, Micronesia—Nauru.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult feeds on humans, domestic animals and a wide range of animals, marsupials and amphibians, primarily a broad-spectrum mammal feeder; adults are vicious diurnal and nocturnal biters; adults collected in light and animal-baited traps; major summer pest of inland riverine areas of south-eastern Australia, particularly in the Murray-Darling River basin; major vector of nocturnal periodic filariasis with a high rate of natural infection with Wuchereria bancrofti larvae; natural vector of Dirofilaria immitis (canine heartworm) and Oswaldofilaria chlamydosauri larvae; efficient vector of a wide range of arboviruses in Australia; vector of myxomatosis, birdpox, reticuloendotheliosis, reovirus type 3 viruses and Eperythrozoon ovis, a protozoan blood parasite of sheep; larva found in temporary and semi-permanent ground waters, waterholes, permanent freshwater swamps, lagoons, billabongs, transient grassy pools, salt marsh pools, waste water, ponds, ruts, drainage swamps, irrigation and earthen drainage channels, ditches, flooded pastures, seepage pools, human-made pools and artificial containers in either sunlit or shaded habitats, usually with aquatic or emergent vegetation; for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1989: 64).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
20-Apr-2012 14-Oct-2013 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)