Species Culex (Culiciomyia) pullus Theobald, 1905

Museums

Regional Maps

• Culex pullus Theobald, F.V. 1905. A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with descriptions of new genera and species. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 3: 61-120 [87].

  Type data:

   Holotype HNHM ♀ adult, Muina (near Madang, Madang Province), New Guinea (Papua New Guinea).
• Culex muticus Edwards, F.W. 1923. Mosquito notes.—IV. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 1-9 [6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, F.W. 1932. Diptera. Fam. Culicidae. Genera Insectorum 194: 1-258 [199]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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 taken in light and chicken-baited traps;, does not bite humans but feeds on fowl, dogs and mammals; isolation of Kunjin, Eubenangee, Alfuy and Sindbis viruses from collections; larva found in log holes, transient pools, ruts, stream backwaters, shallow swamps, cisterns, putrid water in septic tanks, stagnant gutters, ground pools, tree holes, leaves on Waghena, a sago palm stump, riverside pools, small creeks, artificial containers, shaded and sunlit collections of ground water except permanent ponds and brackish water.

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. [26] (literature, distribution, biology)

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