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1902b:908 (F).

Faureville, Vate [Efate], New Hebrides Islands [Vanuatu] (PIP).


Distribution
Australia, Indonesia, Solomon Islands (Santa Cruz Islands), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismark Archipelago, Vanuatu

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Synonyms
moluccensis Swellengrebel and Swellengrebel de Graaf
1919(1920)b:1 (L*; annulipes var.). Also 1920b:29 (M, F; annulipes var.).
Type-loc: Several localities in Moluccas and Western New Guinea (NE).
Knight and Farner 1944:132 (syn.).
Lee and Woodhill 1944:140 (M, F*, L*, E*).

Bionomics
Larvae are found in a wide variety of breeding places but prefer habitat with emergent, floating and submerged vegetation or algae in heavy shade. Thsi species is also found in brackish pools, lagoons and mangrove swamps in costal areas. Larvae are occassionally taken from a wide variety of artifical containers. Adults feed on a wide variety of hosts, including man (Belkin 1962).

Medical Importance
Primary malaria vector (Belkin 1962).

Additional References
Knight and Farner 1944:132 (resurrected from syn. with punctulatus).
Rozeboom and Knight 1946:120 (F*, P*, L*; tax.).
Reid 1947:90 (tax.).
Horsfall 1955:210 (biol.).
Belkin 1962a:138 (M*, F*, P*, L*).
Bryan and Coluzzi 1971:266 (cytogenetics).
Bryan 1973:64 (tax.).
Bryan 1974:413 (tax.).
Maffi 1973a:29 (tax.).

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