Species Telmatoscopus townsvillensis (Taylor, 1915)
- Pericoma townsvillensis Taylor, F.H. 1915. A blood-sucking species of Pericoma in Queensland (Dipt.). Bulletin of Entomological Research 6: 267 [267].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult (not found), Townsville, QLD.
Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (not found); BMNH ♀ adult (Taylor lists only 'Type and one other specimen' and Tonnoir, anomalously, only one paratype ♀ and some 'Other specimens' collected after Taylor's paper was published. Thus, it seems that there were never any paratypes and that the holotype may have been lost before the collection was transferred to the ANIC, Duckhouse, D.A., pers. comm.).
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Stated by Taylor to bite humans.
General References
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. [173] (as unplaced in a subgenus of Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904)
Tonnoir, A.L. 1953. The Australian Psychodidae (Diptera), part II. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 419-448 [433] (nov. comb. as Telmatoscopus townsvillensis (Taylor, 1915))
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 02-May-2011 | 29-Sep-2015 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |