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Author: Giles
1901a:607
(A).
Travancore, India (BM).
Distribution
Aden, Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon,
Central African Republic, China, R. Congo, D. R. Congo, Dahomey, Gabon, Gambia,
Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar,
Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau
Islands, Philippines, Russia, Ryukyu-Retto, Senegal, Sri lanka, South Africa,
Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Synonyms
ager
Giles 1901c:196
(F; Taeniorhynchus). Type-loc: Madras Presidency, India (BM).
Townsend 1990:38 (type info.).
ethiopicus
Edwards. 1912c:30 (A*; ager var.). Type-loc: [Bole, Northern
Territories,Ghana] (BM).
Edwards 1941:291 (M*, F*; tax.;
resurrected from syn. with bitaeniorhynchus), 415 (P*).
Harbach 1988:101 (syn.).
abdominalis
Taylor
1913:53 (F*; Culicelsa). Type-loc: Ayr and Townsville, Queensland,
Australia (NE).
karatsuensis
Mochizuki
1913:28 (M*, F*, E). Type-loc: Karatsu, Kyushu, Japan (LU).
Bionomics
Larvae are restricted to ground water habitats containing Spirogyra.
Females are primarily bird feeders in Thailand. In New Guinea, a form readily
bites man (Harbach 1988, Bram 1967).
Medical Importance
It has been found naturally infrcted with W. bancrofti
in India, and Burgia malayi in Sri Lanka. It is associated
with Murray Valley encephalitis in Australia and with Batai
virus in India (Harbach 1988).
Additional References
Barraud 1934:391 (M*, F, L*).
LaCasse and Yamaguti 1950:201
(M*, F*, P*, L*).
Asanuma and Nakagawa 1953:93
(P*).
Hara 1957:55 (F*).
Belkin 1962a:215 (M*, F, P*,
L*).
Bram 1967b: 258 (M*, F*,
P*, L*; syn.).
Lofti 1973:206 (n. distr.).
Sirivanakarn 1973c:235
(M*,F* ,P,L; tax.).
Gutsevich, Monchadsky and Stackelberg
1974:367 (M*, F, L*).
Rickenbach, Eouzan, Ferrara
and Bailly-Choumara 1976:96 (distr.).
Service 1976:262 (distr ).
Sirivanakarn 1976:65
(M*, F*, P*, L*; distr.).
Harbach 1988:105 (neotype
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