Species Culicoides mykytowyczi Lee & Reye, 1963
- Culicoides mykytowyczi Lee, D.J. & Reye, E.J. 1963. Australasian Ceratopogonidae (Diptera, Nematocera). Part X: additional Australian species of Culicoides. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87: 352-363 [359].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Colo Vale, NSW.
Paratype(s) 24♀ adult (ANIC/USNM/QIMR); BMNH ♀ adult.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from Tinnaroo Falls, QLD and Colo Vale, NSW.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Bites humans.
General References
Debenham, M.L. 1979. An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of Australasian Region Ceratopogonidae (Diptera, Nematocera). Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, Monograph 1 xiv 671 pp. [318] (literature, distribution, biology)
Debenham, M.L. 1989. 25. Family Ceratopogonidae. pp. 226-251 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. [241] (as an unplaced species within Culicoides)
Dyce, A.L., Bellis, G.A. & Muller, M.J. 2007. Pictorial Atlas of Australasian Culicoides wings (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Canberra, Australia : Australian Biological Resources Study 88 pp. [31] (wing illustrated)
Kettle, D.S., Elson, M.M. & Dyce, A.L. 1976. Culicoides gladysae sp. n. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from eastern Australia, with descriptions of its larva and pupa and a re-examination of C. mykytowyczi Lee and Reye and C. moreensis Lee and Reye. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 173-182 [179] (morphometric comparison)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 09-Jul-2013 | 09-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 09-Jul-2013 | 11-Aug-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 09-Jul-2013 | 10-Aug-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 15-Jun-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |