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Species Psychodocha cinerea (Banks, 1894)

Psychoda cinerea Banks, N. 1894. Some Psychodidae from Long Island, N.Y. The Canadian Entomologist 26: 329-333 [331].
Type data:
Lectotype USNM ♀ adult, Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York, USA.
Paralectotype(s) USNM ♂.

Generic Combinations

Psychodocha cinerea (Banks, 1894). —
Jezek 1984. Six new genera of the tribe Psychodini End. (Diptera, Psychodidae). Acta Faunistica Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 17(198): 133-154

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae usually found in foul places, including sewage filter beds and household drains.

General References

Del Rosario, F. 1936. The American species of Psychoda (Diptera: Psychodidae). Philippine Journal of Science 59: 85-148 [100] (taxonomy)

Duckhouse, D.A. 1966. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of southern Australia: subfamily Psychodinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 153-220 [208] (distribution as cosmopolitan, common in Australia, taxonomy)

Duckhouse, D.A. & Lewis, D.J. 1989. Superfamily Psychodoidea. 15. Family Psychodidae. pp. 166-179 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. [175] (listed as present in SA)

Quate, L.W. 1955. A revision of the Psychodidae (Diptera) in America north of Mexico. University of California Publications in Entomology 10: 103-273 [194] (full synonymy)

Satchell, G.H. 1947. The ecology of the British species of Psychoda (Diptera: Psychodidae). Annals of Applied Biology 34: 611-621 [611] (biology)

Satchell, G.H. 1947. The larvae of the British species of Psychoda (Diptera: Psychodidae). Parasitology 38: 51-69 [56] (larval morphology)

Satchell, G.H. 1953. The Australian Psychodidae (Diptera), part 1. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 357-418 [359] (cited as present in Australia)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2011		29-Mar-2011	MOVED
02-May-2011		29-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)