Species Hodgesia quasisanguinae Leicester, 1908

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• Hodgesia quasisanguinae Leicester, G.F. 1908. The Culicidae of Malaya. Studies of the Institute of Medical Research of the Federated Malay States 3(3): 18-261 [230].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), near Kuala Lumpur (Selangor), Malaya.
• Hodgesia triangulatus Taylor, F.H. 1914. Culicidae from Papua. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1914: 185-205 [204].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Lakekamu Gold Field (Gulf Province), Papua New Guinea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [358]

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a vicious daytime biter along edges of swamp, near creeks, in bush, jungle, rainforest and scrub; adults occasionally collected in light and animal-baited traps; isolation of Eubenangee virus from 3 mosquitoes collected at Innisfail, QLD; immatures found in shaded creek in Bamaga on Cape York Peninsula, QLD.

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. [94] (literature, distribution, biology)

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