Species Threticus aenigmaticus (Satchell, 1953)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psychoda aenigmaticus Satchell, G.H. 1953. The Australian Psychodidae (Diptera), part 1. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 357-418 [376].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Hobart, TAS.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 6♀ 5♂ adults.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Bred from decomposing fungus, Boletus granulatus, larva a rheophobe.

 

General References

Duckhouse, D.A. 1966. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of southern Australia: subfamily Psychodinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 153-220 [194] (taxonomy)

Quate, L.W. 1959. Classification of the Psychodini (Psychodidae: Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 52: 444-451 [450] (nov. comb. as Threticus aenigmaticus (Satchell, 1953))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-May-2011		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)