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Species Culiseta (Culicella) inconspicua (Lee, 1937)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult does not attack humans but feeds on rabbits; adults occasionally collected in dry-ice baited traps; possible vector of myxomatosis in southern and east Victoria; larva found in shaded ground pools (often at the base of trees), rock pools, creeklines, ditches, drainage pits, waterholes, wells, vegetated swamp margins, grassy and tea-tree swamps and containers.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
20-Apr-2012 20-Apr-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)