Species Culicoides histrio Johannsen, 1946
- Culicoides guttifer histrio Johannsen, O.A. 1946. Diptera. Some new species of nematocerous Diptera from Guam. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 189: 187-193 [190] [originally descibed as a variety of Culicoides (Meijerehelea) guttifer (de Meijere, 1907)].
Type data:
Holotype CUIC ♂ adult, Piti, Guam, Mariana Ils.
Paratype(s) CUIC ♀ adult; adults (CU/HSPA, number and sex unspecified). - Culicoides mackayensis 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 [383].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Mackay, QLD.
Paratype(s) 13♀ adults (ANIC/QIMR/USNM); BMNH ♀ adult.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Wirth, W.W. 1964. The synonymy of Culicoides histrio Johannsen (Diptera: Ceratopodonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 66: 119 [119]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Belau, widespread Oriental Region.
IBRA
NSW, 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: nocturnal, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Takes blood meals from poultry, arbovirus vector.
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. [264] (as Culicoides (Meijerehelea) histrio Johannsen, 1946, taxonomy, literature, distribution, biology)
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. [26] (wing illustrated)
Wirth, W.W. 1964. The synonymy of Culicoides histrio Johannsen (Diptera: Ceratopodonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 66: 119 [119] (as Culicoides histrio Johannsen, 1946)
Wirth, W.W. & Hubert, A.A. 1989. The Culicoides of Southeast Asia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 44: 1-508 [423] (as Culicoides (Meijerehelea) histrio Johannsen, 1946, literature, distribution)
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 | 10-Aug-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 15-Jun-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |