Species Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) insignis (Skuse, 1889)
- Ceratopogon insignis Skuse, F.A.A. 1889. Diptera of Australia. Part VI.—The Chironomidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4: 215-311 [298].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀ adult (number of specimens in type series not stated in original description), Narrabeen Lagoon, near Manly, NSW. - Ceratopogon sydneyensis Skuse, F.A.A. 1889. Diptera of Australia. Part VI.—The Chironomidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4: 215-311 [302].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♂ 2♀ adults (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Sydney and environs, NSW.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Debenham, M.L. 1987. The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian Region (exclusive of New Zealand) I. Introduction, key to subgenera, and the Thyridomyia and Trichohelea groups of subgenera. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 35-119 [81]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Tas, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
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. [107, 141] (as Forcipomyia insignis (Skuse, 1889), literature)
Debenham, M.L. 1987. The biting midge genus Forcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in the Australasian Region (exclusive of New Zealand) I. Introduction, key to subgenera, and the Thyridomyia and Trichohelea groups of subgenera. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 35-119 [81] (as Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) insignis (Skuse, 1889))
Kieffer, J.J. 1906. Diptera. Fam. Chironomidae. Genera Insectorum 42: 1-78 [55] (as Culicoides sydneyensis (Skuse, 1889))
Kieffer, J.J. 1917. Chironomides d'Australie conservés au Musée National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 15: 175-228 [177] (as Ceratopogon (?Atrichopogon) insignis (Skuse, 1889))
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 [556] (as Apelma sydneyensis (Skuse, 1889))
Wirth, W.W. & Messersmith, D.H. 1971. Studies on the genus Forcipomyia. 1. The North American parasitic midges of the subgenus Trichohelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 64: 15-26 [25] (as Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) sydneyensis (Skuse, 1889))
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |