Species Culex (Neoculex) postspiraculosus Lee, 1944
- Culex postspiraculosus Lee, D.J. 1944. Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). Part V. The genus Armigeres and new species of Armigeres, Theobaldia and Culex. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 69: 215-225 [221].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Narrabeen, NSW.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: aquatic.
Extra Ecological Information
Adult probably does not attack humans; adults taken rarely in dry-ice baited traps; larva found in large, vegetated ground pools such as open, freshwater sedge and tea-tree swamps and peaty depressions along their margins, marshes, ponds with vegetated edges, in creeklines and smaller pools with emergent and floating vegetation.
General References
History of changes
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20-Apr-2012 | 20-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |