Species Culicoides bundyensis Lee & Reye, 1955
- Culicoides bundyensis Lee, D.J. & Reye, E.J. 1955. Australasian Ceratopogonidae (Diptera, Nematocera). Part VII. Notes on the genera Alluaudomyia, Ceratopogon, Culicoides and Lasiohelea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 79: 233-246 [239].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Bundy, via Moree, NSW.
Paratype(s) ♂ ♀ adults.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Also recorded from East Papua
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, 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), Carnarvon (CAR), 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), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Adult feeds principally on marsupials, pupa in freshwater stream margins.
General References
Debenham, M.L. 1979. An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of Australasian Region Ceratopogonidae (Diptera, Nematocera). Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, Monograph 1 xiv 671 pp. [236] (literature, distribution, biology)
Debenham, M.L. 1989. 25. Family Ceratopogonidae. pp. 226-251 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [240] (as an unplaced species within Culicoides)
Dyce, A.L., Bellis, G.A. & Muller, M.J. 2007. Pictorial Atlas of Australasian Culicoides wings (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Canberra, Australia : Australian Biological Resources Study 88 pp. [59] (wing variants illustrated)
Muller, M.J., Murray, M.D. & Edwards, J.A. 1981. Blood–sucking midges and mosquitoes feeding on mammals at Beatrice Hill, N.T. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 573-588 [583] (NT locality)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 09-Jul-2013 | 09-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 09-Jul-2013 | 11-Aug-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 09-Jul-2013 | 10-Aug-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 15-Jun-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |