Species Bironella (Bironella) simmondsi Tenorio, 1977

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• Bironella simmondsi Tenorio, J.A. 1977. Revision of the genus Bironella (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 14: 317-361 [331].

  Type data:

   Holotype EUQ ♂ adult, Dinner Creek, Innisfail, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ ♀ adult; QIMR 3♂ 10♀ adults; ANIC 2♂ 4♀ adults; QM ♂ 2♀ adults; BMNH ♂ 2♀ adults; USNM ♂ 2♀ adults; BPBM ♂ 5♀ adults.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult occasionally taken biting humans; larva collected from a jungle pool, shaded pool in scrub, rock pool in mountain stream, in backwater of a creek in rainforest and pools among sedges at edge of jungle.

 

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., Geary, M. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Armigeres, Bironella and Coquillettidia. 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. 6 124 pp. [44] (literature, distribution, biology)

 

History of changes

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