Species Nothodixa geniculata (Tonnoir, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dixa geniculata Tonnoir, A.L. 1923. Australian Dixidae (Dipt.). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1923: 58-71 [61].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Burnie, TAS.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♂ 5♀ adults.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from St Patrick's River and Burnie, TAS.

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

Nowell, W.R. 1951. The Dipterous Family Dixidae in Western North America (Insecta: Diptera). Microentomology 16: 187-270 [234] (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. [188] (as Nothodixa geniculata (Tonnoir, 1923))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Jun-2011		01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)