Species Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) townsvillensis (Taylor, 1918)

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• Culicoides townsvillensis Taylor, F.H. 1918. Studies in phlebotomic Diptera, No. 1. New species of Simuliidae and Chironomidae. The Australian Zoologist 1: 167-170 [169].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♀ adult, QLD: Townsville.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC 4♀ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Debenham, M.L. 1983. Australasian species of the blood-feeding Forcipomyia subgenera, Lasiohelea and Dacnoforcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 95: 1-61 [21].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Sometimes crepuscular, bites humans, cattle, horses, goats, sheep, dogs, rabbits and wallabies.

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. [145] (taxonomy, literature, biology, distribution)

Debenham, M.L. 1983. Australasian species of the blood-feeding Forcipomyia subgenera, Lasiohelea and Dacnoforcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 95: 1-61 [21] (as Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) townsvillensis (Taylor, 1918))

Edwards, F.W. 1922. On some Malayan and other species of Culicoides, with a note on the genus Lasiohelea. Bulletin of Entomological Research 13: 161-167 [166] (as Lasiohelea stimulans (de Meijere, 1909))

Macfie, J.W.S. 1939. A note on the re-examination of Australian species of Ceratopogonidae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64: 555-558 [555] (as Lasiohelea townsvillensis (Taylor, 1918))

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