Species Uranotaenia (Uranotaenia) tibialis Taylor, 1919

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• Uranotaenia tibialis 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 [839].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♂ ♀ adult, Cairns, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), 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 caught in carbon dioxide-baited traps and a light trap at forest-swamp margin; adults also taken in rainforest, swamp forest, farmland and mangrove forest; larva collected from semi-shaded, slow-running river with vegetation, ground pools with algae and decaying vegetation in closed palm jungle and edges of reed area of a shallow swamp.

 

General References

King, W.V. & Hoogstraal, H. 1947. New species of New Guinea Uranotaenia of the tibialis group (Diptera: Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 39: 585-596 [593] (considered Uranotaenia antennalis may be the same as some other member of the tibialis group and consequently listed it as a queried synonym of tibialis, the type locality of both species being Cairns)

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. 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. 11 306 pp. [290] (literature, distribution, biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Apr-2012		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)