Species Malaya leei (Wharton, 1947)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Harpagomyia leei Wharton, R.H. 1947. Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). Part VII. The genus Harpagonia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 72: 58-68 [60].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Madang (Madang Province), Papua New Guinea.

Generic Combinations

• Malaya leei (Wharton, 1947). —
  Stone, A., Knight, K.L. & Starcke, H. 1959. A Synoptic Catalog of the Mosquitoes of the World (Diptera, Culicidae). The Thomas Say Foundation, Vol. VI. Washington : Entomological Society of America 358 pp. [94]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Specimens observed and filmed taking food from the mouths of Crematogaster ants; larva collected from leaf axils of bananas, bamboo, pineapple, taro and Colocasia and Alocasia spp. [Araceae].

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Bryan, J.H. & Marks, E.N. 1988. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genus Culex. (Subgenera Lutzia, Neocluex, Subgenus undecided). Genera Culiseta, Ficalbia, Heizmannia, Hodgesia, Malaya, Mansonia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 9 162 pp. [108] (literature, distribution, biology)

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