Species Culicoides pallidothorax Lee & Reye, 1963
- Culicoides pallidothorax Lee, D.J. & Reye, E.J. 1963. Australasian Ceratopogonidae (Diptera, Nematocera). Part X: additional Australian species of Culicoides. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87: 352-363 [362].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Humpty Doo, NT.
Paratype(s) ANIC 3♀ adult; USNM ♀ adult.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Bites humans, wongorr virus isolated from specimens.
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. [339] (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)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |