Species Culicoides moreensis Lee & Reye, 1955
- Culicoides moreensis 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, Moree, NSW.
Paratype(s) ANIC 5♀ adult; QIMR ♀ adult.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Bites sheep and humans.
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. [318] (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. [58] (wing illustrated)
Kettle, D.S., Elson, M.M. & Dyce, A.L. 1976. Culicoides gladysae sp. n. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from eastern Australia, with descriptions of its larva and pupa and a re-examination of C. mykytowyczi Lee and Reye and C. moreensis Lee and Reye. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 173-182 [179] (morphometric comparison)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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17-Mar-2014 | Culicoides Latreille, 1809 | 29-Sep-2015 | MODIFIED | Dr Federica Turco (QM) |
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) |