Species Anopheles (Anopheles) tasmaniensis Dobrotworsky, 1966

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Regional Maps

• Anopheles (Anopheles) tasmaniensis Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1966. Mosquitoes of Tasmania and Bass Straits Islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 91: 121-146 [130].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins), Birralee, TAS.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 9♀ adults; NMV ♀ adult; EUQ ♀ adult; BMNH ♀ adult; USNM ♀ adult.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva found in tea-tree swamps.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1987. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Anopheles. Subgenera Anopheles, Cellia. Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 5 315 pp. [103] (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)