Species Culicoides immaculatus Lee & Reye, 1953
- Culicoides immaculatus 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 [375].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Yam Island, Torres Strait Islands, QLD.
Paratype(s) ANIC 2♀ adults.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Also recorded from East Papua
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Bites humans.
General References
Bellis, G.A., Dyce, A.L., Gopurenko, D. & Mitchell, A. 2013. Revision of the Immaculatus Group of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Australasian Region with description of two new species. Zootaxa 3680(1): 15–37 [24] (new records, re-description)
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. [269] (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. [241] (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. [43] (wing illustrated)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |