Culex palmi Baisas, 1938Culicelsa simplex Taylor, 1914Culicelsa consimilis Taylor, 1913Culex someresti Taylor, 1912Culex jepsoni Bahr, 1912Culex consimilis Newstead, 1907Culex bancroftii Theobald, 1901 Culex annulirostris, commonly known as the common banded mosquito, is an insect native to Australia, Fiji, Micronesia, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Frederick Askew Skuse described the species in 1889 from specimens collected in the Blue Mountains and Berowra.

[2] The species name is derived from the Latin words annulus "ring" and rostrum "bill".

[citation needed] The female is a moderate-sized brown to dark brown mosquito,[1] with a single pale prominent broad band on the middle third of its proboscis, and similar bands on its legs.

[1] Breeding takes place anywhere there is standing water, from swamps and ponds to all kinds of man-made puddles—irrigation channels, bamboo stumps, cacao shells, the bottoms of canoes.