Species Uranotaenia (Uranotaenia) lateralis Ludlow, 1905

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• Uranotaenia caeruleocephala lateralis Ludlow, C.S. 1905. Mosquito notes.—No. 4. The Canadian Entomologist 37: 385-388 [385] [originally described as Uranotaenia caeruleocephala var. lateralis].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM ♀ adult, Cotabato (Mindanao), Philippines.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stone, A. 1957. Notes on types of mosquitoes in the Hungarian National Museum (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 50: 171-174 [173].
• Uranotaenia propria Taylor, F.H. 1914. The Culicidae of Australia.—I. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1913: 683-708 [704].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Townsville, QLD.
• Uranotaenia cairnsensis Taylor, F.H. 1919. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. iv. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 43: 826-843 [839].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Cairns, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Belkin, J.N. 1962. The Mosquitoes of the South Pacific (Diptera, Culicidae). Berkeley & Los Angeles, USA : Univ. Calif. Press Vol. 1. [170] (extralimital synonymy)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Appears to be strictly coastal in Australian Region, widespread Oriental Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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 caught in light traps; larva found in permanent ponds, forest streams, freshwater courses, crab holes, brackish coastal, nipa palm, sago and mangrove swamps, stagnant gutters, septic tanks, brackish pools, run-off from sewage ponds and polluted, brackish effluent.

 

General References

Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [357] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonymised cairnsensis and propria with atra, by which name lateralis was mistakenly known at the time)

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, 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. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. 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. 11 306 pp. [252] (literature, distribution, biology)

 

History of changes

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