Species Dixella humeralis (Tonnoir, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dixa humeralis Tonnoir, A.L. 1923. Australian Dixidae (Dipt.). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1923: 58-71 [65].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (20.xi.1921, A.L. Tonnoir), Mt Wilson, Blue Mountains, NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Ogawa, J.R.; Miller, K.L. & Judd, D.D. 2004. Redescription of Dixella humeralis (Tonnoir) with notes on the immature stages (Diptera: Dixidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 43(4): 340-345 [Date published 24 Nov 2004] [341].

 

Generic Combinations

• Dixella humeralis (Tonnoir, 1923). —
  Peters, T.M. 1989. Superfamily Culicoidea. 19. Family Dixidae. pp. 187-188 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. [187]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from Blundell's and Tinker's Creek, Uriarra, ACT and Mount Wilson, NSW.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

General References

Belkin, J.N. 1968. Mosquito Studies (Diptera, Culicidae). VII. The Culicidae of New Zealand. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 3: 1-182 [32] (as Paradixa humeralis (Tonnoir, 1923))

Nowell, W.R. 1951. The Dipterous Family Dixidae in Western North America (Insecta: Diptera). Microentomology 16: 187-270 [235] (bibliography up to 1951)

 

History of changes

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