Species Leptotarsus (Leptotarsus) tricinctus (Walker, 1848)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tipula tricincta Walker, F. 1848. List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. London : British Museum pp. 1-229. [73].

  Type data:

   Holotype adult, Sandy Cape, QLD.
• Leptotarsus (Leptotarsus) caesarea Alexander, C.P. 1929. The Australian species of Leptotarsus and Semnotes (Fam. Tipulidae; Ord. Diptera). Konowia 8: 242-248 [245].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Dunwich, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♂ adult (not found).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1972. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. VII. The genus Leptotarsus Guérin; the subgenera Leptotarsus s.str. and Pseudoleptotarsus Alexander. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 16: 11-43 [32]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1972. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. VII. The genus Leptotarsus Guérin; the subgenera Leptotarsus s.str. and Pseudoleptotarsus Alexander. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 16: 11-43 [32] (resurrection from synonymy)

Skuse, F.A.A. 1890. Diptera of Australia. Part VIII.—The Tipulidae longipalpi. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(1): 53-139, Pls. IV-VI [104] (synonymy with Leptotarsus macquartii, Guérin Méneville 1831)

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