Species Culex (Lophoceraomyia) hilli Edwards, 1922

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• Culex hilli Edwards, F.W. 1922. Mosquito notes.—III. Bulletin of Entomological Research 13: 75-102 [95].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (head and genitalia slide mounted), 70 m S of Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 4♀ adults, 70 m (113 km) south of Darwin, NT.
• Neomacleaya australis 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 [178] [junior secondary homonym of Culex australis Erichson, 1842 (= Aedes (Halaedes) australis (Erichson, 1842))].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description; specimen found to be headless and in poor condition, see 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. [115]), Halifax, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stone, A., Knight, K.L. & Starcke, H. 1959. A Synoptic Catalog of the Mosquitoes of the World (Diptera, Culicidae). The Thomas Say Foundation, Vol. VI. Washington : Entomological Society of America 358 pp. [233] (extralimital synonymies)
• 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. [115]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult female bites humans and dogs; larva found in swampy areas beneath Melaleuca [Myrtaceae] and Pandanus [Pandanaceae] with dense aquatic vegetation and algae, shaded pool beneath freshwater mangrove with organic debris, a side pool, dense water hyacinths on a waterhole and lagoons.

 

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. [115] (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)