Species Dixella unipunctata (Tonnoir, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dixa unipunctata Tonnoir, A.L. 1923. Australian Dixidae (Dipt.). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1923: 58-71 [66].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, St Patrick's River, TAS.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♂ adult.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

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 unipunctata (Tonnoir, 1923))

Nowell, W.R. 1951. The Dipterous Family Dixidae in Western North America (Insecta: Diptera). Microentomology 16: 187-270 [241] (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 unipunctata (Tonnoir, 1923))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Jun-2011		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)