Species Mansonia (Mansonioides) dives (Schiner, 1868)

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• Culex dives Schiner, I.R. 1868 [1867]. Diptera. In, Unknown (Ed.). Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. 1. Abtheilung. Wien [= Vienna] : B. K. Gerold's Sohn vi + 388 pp. [Date published 30 April 1868] [31] [nom. nov. for Culex annulipes Walker, 1856].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Culex annulipes Walker, F. 1857 [1856]. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected in Singapore and Malacca by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1: 4-39 [Date published 1857] [6] [junior primary homonym of Culex annulipes Meigen, 1830].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀ adults (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Singapore.
• Culex longipalpis Wulp, F.M. van der 1881. Negende afdeeling. Diptera in Midden-Sumatra. Reizen en onderzoekingen der Sumatra-Expeditie, uitgerust door het Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1877–1879, beschreven door de leden der expeditie, onder toezicht van Prof. P.J. Veth. erde deel. Natuurlijke historie. Eerste gedeelte. Fauna. Laatste helft. Leiden : E.J. Brill Vol. 4. [9].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) LM ♀ adults (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Alahan panjang, near Soeroelangoen (Benkoelen), Sumatra (Indonesia).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, F.W. 1925. Mosquito notes.—V. Bulletin of Entomological Research 15: 257-270 [260]
• 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. [123]

Generic Combinations

• Mansonia dives (Schiner, 1868). —
  Stone, A. 1957. Corrections in the taxonomy and nomenclature of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 58(6): 333-344 [336]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult feeds on cattle, humans, goats, cats, dogs, pigs and birds; good host for semi-periodic Brugia malayi but not the periodic form (based on laboratory observations); important vector of human filariasis; larva collected from shaded pools and small lake with common root vegetable Ipomoea sp. [Convolvulaceae] and Eichhornia crassipes [Ponterderiaceae] plants; for extensive biological information see Lee et al. (1988: 127).

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. [123] (literature, distribution, biology)

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