Species Mansonia (Mansonioides) uniformis (Theobald, 1901)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Panoplites uniformis Theobald, F.V. 1901. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. Mainly compiled from the collections received at the British Museum from various parts of the world in connection with the investigation into the cause of malaria conducted by the Colonial Office and the Royal Society. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. I 424 pp. [180].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 4♀ adults (number of syntypes not stated in original description), (Kerala), Quilon, Travancore, India (2); (Perak), Straits Settlement, Taiping, Malaya (2).
• Panoplites australiensis Giles, G.M. 1902. A Handbook of the Gnats or Mosquitoes giving the anatomy and life history of the Culicidae together with descriptions of all species noticed up to the present date. Second edition, rewritten and enlarged. London : J. Bale, Sons & Danielsson 2. [355].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀ adults (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Burpengary, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Theobald, F.V. 1905. Diptera. Fam. Culicidae. Genera Insectorum 26: 1-50 [31]
• Knight, K.L. & Stone, A. 1977. A Catalog of the Mosquitoes of the World (Diptera: Culicidae). The Thomas Say Foundation. College Park, Maryland : Entomological Society of America Vol. 6. [297] (extralimital synonymies)

Generic Combinations

• Mansonia uniformis (Theobald, 1901). —
  Theobald, F.V. 1903. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 xvii 359 pp. [273]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult female aggressive, persistent and active biter and readily attacks humans, cattle, sheep, humans, pigs, dogs, fowls, kangaroos, cats, horses and birds; adults caught in light and animal-baited traps; major nuisance pest in parts of northern Australia; vector of Wuchereria bancrofti (filariasis) outside of Australia; successful experimental infection of uniformis with the monkey malaria parasite Plasmodium cynomolgi and also known to be susceptible to human malaria; possible competent vector for Ross River, Murray Valley encephalitis and Kunjin viruses; isolation of Ross River fever, Edge Hill virus, Japanese encephalitis and an ungrouped arbovirus P5-350 from collections; larva found in association with all types of water plants (floating and emergent) in permanent and semi-permanent swamps, lagoons and waterholes; for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1988: 158).

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Bryan, J.H. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. (Subgenera Lutzia, Neocluex, Subgenus undecided). Genera Culiseta, Ficalbia, Heizmannia, Hodgesia, Malaya, Mansonia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 9 162 pp. [145] (literature, distribution, biology)

Russell, R.C. 1993. Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Disease in Southeastern Australia. A guide to the biology, relation to disease, surveillance, control and the identification of mosquitoes in southeastern Australia. New South Wales : Published privately by Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead 195 pp. [10.175] (biology)

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