Species Dixella nicholsoni (Tonnoir, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dixa nicholsoni Tonnoir, A.L. 1923. Australian Dixidae (Dipt.). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1923: 58-71 [64].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (not found), Mill, Allyn River, NSW.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (not found); ANIC 19 adults (14 not found).

 

Generic Combinations

• Dixella nicholsoni (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 Cotter River, ACT and Mill, Allyn River, 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 nicholsoni (Tonnoir, 1923))

Nowell, W.R. 1951. The Dipterous Family Dixidae in Western North America (Insecta: Diptera). Microentomology 16: 187-270 [238] (bibliography up to 1951)

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] (as Dixella nicholsoni (Tonnoir, 1923))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Jun-2011		01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)