Species Bironella (Neobironella) papuae (Swellengrebel & Swellengrebel-de Graaf, 1919)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stethomyia aitkenii papuae Swellengrebel, N.H. & Swellengrebel-de Graaf, J.M.H. 1919. Addenda to bescription [sic] of larvea [sic] of Netherlands Indian anophelines. Mededeelingen van den Burgerlijken Geneeskundigen Dienst in Nederlandsch-Indië 9: 1-3 [3] [as Stethomyia aitkenii var. papuae].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (originally described from larval material which is no longer extant, see 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. [60]), Kokas and Kaimana, Western New Guinea (Irian Jaya).
• Bironella (Neobironella) brugi Soesilo, R. & van Slooten, J. 1931. Verspreide aantenkeningen over Anophelinen in den Oost-Indischen Archipel. Geneeskundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch--Indië 71: 1254-1259 [1256].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 21808 ♂ (with associated terminalia slide), Upper Digoel River, New Guinea (Irian Jaya).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tenorio, J.A. 1977. Revision of the genus Bironella (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 14: 317-361 [352] (extralimital synonymy)

Distribution

States

Queensland

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 female recorded biting a human; larva found along the margins of slow and fast moving streams, small creeks, exposed and shaded pools and shallow edges of a rainforest stream.

General References

Evenhuis, N.L. & Gon, S.M. III 1989. 22. Family Culicidae. pp. 191-218 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [194] (common incorrect subsequent spelling as pupaae)

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. [60] (literature, distribution, biology)

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