Species Culex (Oculeomyia) squamosus (Taylor, 1914)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Culicada squamosa Taylor, F.H. 1914. The Culicidae of Australia.—I. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1913: 683-708 [691].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Townsville, QLD.
• Trichopronomyia annulata Theobald, F.V. 1905. A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with descriptions of new genera and species. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 3: 61-120 [98] [junior secondary homonym of Culex annulatus Schrank, 1776].

  Type data:

   Holotype HNHM ♂ adult, Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (as Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea).
• Leucomyia annulirostris Taylor, F.H. 1914. The Culicidae of Australia.—I. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1913: 683-708 [696] [junior secondary homonym of Culex annulirostris Skuse, 1889].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♂ ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Townsville, QLD.
• Culex taylori Edwards, F.W. 1921. Mosquito notes.—II. Bulletin of Entomological Research 12: 69-80 [78] [nom. nov. for Leucomyia annulirostris Taylor, 1914].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, F.W. 1922. Mosquito notes.—III. Bulletin of Entomological Research 13: 75-102 [96]
• Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [393]

Generic Combinations

• Culex (Culex) squamosus (Taylor, 1914).
• Culex (Oculeomyia) squamosus (Taylor, 1914). —
  Harbach, R. 1 September 2011. Mosquito Taxonomic inventory Valid Species List. Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory. Http://mosquito-taxonomic-inventory.info/ [accessed on 11 October 2011]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult taken in light and window traps; adults feed on humans, chickens, dogs, marsupials, cats, cattle, birds and other mammals; isolation of Kunjin and Sindbis viruses from collections; possible vector of Wuchereria bancrofti (bancroftian filariasis) larvae to infective stage; larval habitats are temporary or permanent clear water collections associated with vegetation and/or filamentous green algae; larvae found in transient pools, drains, backwaters, streams, ponds, puddles, potholes, ditches, ground pools, ponded streams and running freshwater creeks.

General References

Cooling, L.E. 1924. A synonymic list of the more important species of Culicidae of the Australian Region. Service Publication Department of Health Australian Tropical Division 2: 1-61 [39] (this reference cited in Lee et al. (1982: 189))

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Acallyntrum, Culex. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 281 pp. [245] (literature, distribution, biology)

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