Species Culex (Lophoceraomyia) cylindricus Theobald, 1903

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• Culex cylindricus Theobald, F.V. 1903. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 xvii 359 pp. [202].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3♂ 12♀ adults (abdomen, head and tarsi only for one male specimen on slide), no locality (possibly Burpengary or Eidsvold (as South Queensland), QLD) and Burpengary (as South Queensland), QLD.

  Type locality references:

  Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N. & Bryan, J.H. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Culiciomyia, Eumelanomyia, Lophoceraomyia. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 171 pp. [98]; Townsend, B.C. 1990. Culicidae. pp. 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 [65].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult bites humans and feed on cattle, amphibians, reptiles, birds, sheep, goats and dogs; adults collected in ice-baited traps; isolation of Barmah Forest virus in mosquitoes collected on the south coast of NSW; larva found in vegetated ground pools such as swamps, pond margins, roadside seepage ponds, shaded pools, rock pools, ponded streams, pits, creeks with overhanging vegetation and slow streams with emergent and marginal vegetation.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N. & Bryan, J.H. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Culiciomyia, Eumelanomyia, Lophoceraomyia. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 171 pp. [98] (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. [10.136] (biology)

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