Species Culex (Lophoceraomyia) fraudatrix (Theobald, 1905)

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• Lophoceratomyia fraudatrix 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 [94].

  Type data:

   Lectotype HNHM ♂ adult (lectotype male marked as holotype but a holotype was not designated in the original description, see Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N. & Bryan, J.H. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Culiciomyia, Eumelanomyia, Lophoceraomyia. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 171 pp. [105]), Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (Madang, Madang Province), New Guinea (Papua New Guinea).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Colless, D.H. 1960. Corrigenda to Some species of Culex (Lophoceraomyia) from New Guinea and adjacent islands, with descriptions of four new species and notes on the male of Culex fraudatrix Theobald. (Diptera: Culicidae). Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 84(1959): 382-390. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 85: 256 [256]; Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N. & Bryan, J.H. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Culiciomyia, Eumelanomyia, Lophoceraomyia. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 171 pp.
• Culex molestus Wiedemann, C.R.W. 1828. Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werkes. Erster Theil. Hamm. : Schulz xxxii 608 pp. [542] [junior primary homonym of Culex molestus Forskål, 1775].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Sumatra, Indonesia.
• Lophoceratomyia annulata Taylor, F.H. 1916. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 564-574 [571] [junior secondary homonym of Culex annulatus Schrank, 1776 (= Culiseta (Culiseta) annulata Schrank, 1776)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Stapleton and Daly River, NT.
• Lophoceratomyia 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 [837] [junior secondary homonym of Culex cairnsensis Taylor, 1919].

  Type data:

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

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [242] (extralimital synonymies)
• Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N. & Bryan, J.H. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Culiciomyia, Eumelanomyia, Lophoceraomyia. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 171 pp. [105]

 

Generic Combinations

• Culex (Lophoceraomyia) fraudatrix (Theobald, 1905). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [396]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

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 female apparently does not bite humans; larva found in permanent and semi-permanent ground water collections with green filamentous algae such as transient, jungle pools and seepage pools, puddles, shallow ponds, drainage ditches, open sago swamps, margins of flooded forests.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N. & Bryan, J.H. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. Subgenera Culiciomyia, Eumelanomyia, Lophoceraomyia. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 171 pp. [105] (literature, distribution, biology)

 

History of changes

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