Species Culicoides cordiger Macfie, 1934

Museums

Regional Maps

• Culicoides cordiger Macfie, J.W.S. 1934. Report on a collection of Ceratopogonidae from Malaya [part]. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 26: 177-194 [193].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ adult, Negri Sambalan, Port Dickson, Malaysia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 6♀ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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].
• Culicoides magnesianus Lee, D.J. & Reye, E.J. 1953. Australasian Ceratopogonidae (Diptera, Nematocera). Part VI. Australian species of Culicoides. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 77: 369-394 [385].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Magnetic Island, QLD.
  Paratype(s) 14♀ adults (ANIC/USNM/QIMR); BMNH ♀ adult.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Described from Malaysia, also recorded from West Papus, Bismarck Archipelago, New Caledonia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Bites humans and avians.

 

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. [285] (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. [49, 50] (wing variants illustrated)

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 [243] (suggested synonymy)

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 [296] (taxonomy, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Oct-2013	Culicoides Latreille, 1809	30-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
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)