Species Culex (Culex) mimulus Edwards, 1915

Museums

Regional Maps

• Culex mimulus Edwards, F.W. 1915. Diagnoses of new Bornean Culicidae. Bulletin of Entomological Research 5: 283-285 [284].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂ 3♀ adults (lectotype male with genitalia slide was selected from two syntypes by Sirivanakarn, but Sirivanakarn did not label the lectotype and now it cannot be identified, see Townsend, B.C. 1990. Culicidae. 35–152 in Townsend, B.C., Chainey, J.E., Crosskey, R.W., Pont, A.C., Lane, R.P., Boorman, J.P.T. & Lowry, C.A. A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 7: 1–371 [105]), ?Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo (Malaysia).
• Culex mossmani Taylor, F.H. 1915. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. ii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 40: 176-184 [181].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♂ ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Mossman, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cooling, L.E. 1924. A synonymic list of the more important species of Culicidae of the Australian Region. Service Publication Department of Health Australian Tropical Division 2: 1-61 [36] (this reference cited in Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Russell, R.C. & Marks, E.N. 1982. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Aedeomyia. Genus Aedes. (Subgenera [Aedes], Aedimorphus, Chaetocruiomyia, Christophersiomyia, Edwardsaedes and Finlaya). Commonwealth Institute of Health. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 2 286 pp. [189])
• Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [394]
• Sirivanakarn, S. 1976. A revision of the subgenus Culex in the Oriental region (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 12(2): 1-272 [157] (extralimital synonymies)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread Oriental Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult rarely bites humans; larva found in permanent and semi-permanent ground water collections with green filamentous algae, mosses, grasses and other aquatic vegetation such as transient pools, tree holes, rock crevices, rock and stream pools, marshy depressions, broken bamboo and artificial containers such as drains, wells and ditches.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Acallyntrum, Culex. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 281 pp. [138] (literature, distribution, 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)