Species Sergentomyia (Parrotomyia) queenslandi (Hill, 1923)

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• Phlebotomus queenslandi Hill, G.F. 1923. A new Australian Phlebotomus (Dipt. Psychodidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 83-86 [83].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♂ adult, Townsville, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC 2♀ 2♂ adults; BMNH 2♀ 1♂ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lewis, D.J. & Dyce, A.L. 1988. Taxonomy of the Australasian Phlebotominae (Diptera: Psychodidae) with Revision of Genus Sergentomyia from the Region. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 755-804 [774].
• Phlebotomus queenslandi meridionalis Tonnoir, A.L. 1935. The Australian species of the genus Phlebotomus. Bulletin of Entomological Research 26: 137-147 [142].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Yass, NSW.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 12♀ 6♂ adults; BMNH 9♀ 3♂ adults; ♀ adult.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lewis, D.J. & Dyce, A.L. 1988. Taxonomy of the Australasian Phlebotominae (Diptera: Psychodidae) with Revision of Genus Sergentomyia from the Region. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 755-804 [774]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Haematophagous on lizards.

General References

Lewis, D.J. & Dyce, A.L. 1983. Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from caves in Queensland, Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 22: 223-231 [228] (nov. comb. as Sergentomyia (Parrotomyia) queenslandi (Hill, 1923))

Seccombe, A.K., Ready, P.D. & Huddleston, L.M. 1993. A catalogue of Old World phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 8: 1-57 [26] (species catalogue)

Theodor, O. 1948. Classification of the Old World species of the subfamily Phlebotominae (Diptera, Psychodidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 39: 85-115 [111] (nov. comb. as Sergentomyia queenslandi (Hill, 1923) and Sergentomyia queenslandi var. meridionalis (Tonnoir, 1935))

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