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Species Culex (Culex) whitmorei (Giles, 1904)

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Palaearctic Region.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a pest, biting at dusk; adults collected resting indoors, in light and buffalo-baited traps; natural or preferred host is unknown; isolation of Japanese encephalitis from collections but no evidence as a vector; good vector of Wuchereria bancrofti based on experimental evidence; larva found in permanent and semi-permanent water collections with green filamentous algae such as ponded streams, ditches in rice fields, roadside seepage ponds, transient pools, swamps, slow-flowing rivulets, shallow pools and puddles.

 

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 20-Apr-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)