Species Nothogreniera fergusoni (Tonnoir, 1925)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Simulium fergusoni Tonnoir, A.L. 1925. Australasian Simuliidae. Bulletin of Entomological Research 15: 213-255 [238].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ adult, Bumberry, NSW.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 11♀ adults (1 not found).

 

Generic Combinations

• Nothogreniera fergusoni (Tonnoir, 1925). —
  Craig, D.A., Currie, D.C. & Moulton, J.K. 2018. Nothogreniera new genus, for two species of Australian "Paracnephia" (Diptera: Simuliidae). Zootaxa 4444(4): 351-380 [353, Figs. 1–49]
• Cnephia fergusoni (Tonnoir, 1925). —
  Mackerras, I.M. & Mackerras, M.J. 1949. Revisional notes on Australasian Simuliidae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 73: 372-405 [386]
• Paracnephia fergusoni (Tonnoir, 1925). —
  Crosskey, R.W. & Howard, T.M. 1997. A New Taxonomic and Geographical Inventory of World Blackflies. London : The Natural History Museum 144 pp. [18]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Bites humans, often collected at the same time as Austrosimulium (Novaustrosimulium) bancrofti.

 

General References

Hunter, D.M. & Moorhouse, D.E. 1976. Comparative bionomics of adult Austrosimulium pestilens Mackerras and Mackerras and A. bancrofti (Taylor) (Diptera, Simuliidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 66: 453-467 [453] (biology)

Mackerras, M.J. & Mackerras, I.M. 1955. Notes on Australasian Simuliidae (Diptera). IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 80: 105-112 [105] (distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Dec-2018	SIMULIIDAE	28-Oct-2018	MODIFIED
10-Jun-2011		10-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)