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Species Culex (Oculeomyia) starckeae Stone & Knight, 1958

  • Type data:
     Syntype(s).
  • Culex basicinctus Edwards, F.W. 1922. Mosquito notes.—III. Bulletin of Entomological Research 13: 75-102 [96] [junior homonym of Culex basicinctus Edwards 1921 (= Culex (Culex) vicinus (Taylor, 1916))].
    Type data:
     Syntype(s) BMNH 19 5 adults (Townsend states there are a total of 19 male and 5 female syntypes in the BMNH, and Edwards did not label a holotype male, see 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. [252]), Eidsvold and Townsville, QLD.

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), 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), Northern Kimberley (NK), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult female bites humans and feed on rabbits, dogs, marsupials, cats, cattle, horses, birds, reptiles and mammals in general; adults collected in light traps and chicken-baited traps; isolation of one strain of Sindbis virus from mosquitoes collected at Lake Bullawarra, QLD; larva found in association with mats of Spirogyra or similar filamentous algae along stream margins, stream pools, taro (Alocasia sp. [Araceae]) canals, pits, creeks, rice fields and semi-permanent, rocky stream-fed ground pools.

 

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)
02-Nov-2011 02-Nov-2011 MOVED
20-Apr-2012 15-Jun-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)