Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [3]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

?American Samoa, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Ils, Vanuatu and Oriental Region, essentially tropical.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB)

Distribution References

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [1] (literature, taxonomy, distribution, key to females in the Australian Region)

History of changes

• Polylepidomyia Theobald, F.V. 1905. A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with descriptions of new genera and species. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 3: 61-120 [118] [synonymised with Mimeteomyia by Theobald, F.V. 1910. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 5 646 pp. (210)].

  Type species:

   Polylepidomyia argenteiventris Theobald, 1905 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Theobald, F.V. 1910. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 5 646 pp.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Ils, Vanuatu, Polylepidomyia is a purely Australasian subgenus.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB)

Distribution References

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [16] (literature, taxonomy, distribution)

History of changes

• Mimeteomyia apicotriangulata Theobald, F.V. 1910. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 5 646 pp. [211].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (wing on slide), Kuranda, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Tripteroides (Tripteroides) apicotriangulata (Theobald, 1910).
• Tripteroides (Polylepidomyia) apicotriangulata (Theobald, 1910). —
  Harbach, R. 1 September 2011. Mosquito Taxonomic inventory Valid Species List. Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory. Http://mosquito-taxonomic-inventory.info/ [accessed on 11 October 2011]

Distribution

States

Queensland

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 (synonymised with atripes)

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [33] (resurrected from synonymy as Tripteroides (Polylepidomyia) apicotriangulata)

History of changes

• Polylepidomyia argenteiventris Theobald, F.V. 1905. A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with descriptions of new genera and species. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 3: 61-120 [118].

  Type data:

   Lectotype HNHM ♀ adult, Angabunga River (as Paumomu River), Papua New Guinea.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stone, A. 1957. Notes on types of mosquitoes in the Hungarian National Museum (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 50: 171-174 [173].
• Stegomyia atra Taylor, F.H. 1914. Culicidae from Papua. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1914: 185-205 [190].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult (specimen in poor condition, see Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [28]), Lakekamu Gold Field, Mungana, Papua New Guinea.
• Rachionotomyia brugi Edwards, F.W. 1927. New mosquitoes of the genus Rachionotomyia from New Guinea. Nova Guinea 15: 352-356 [356].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Nassau Mountains, Central New Guinea (Irian Jaya).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stone, A. 1957. Notes on types of mosquitoes in the Hungarian National Museum (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 50: 171-174 [174]

Generic Combinations

• Tripteroides argenteiventris (Theobald, 1905). —
  Brug, S.L. 1934. Notes on Dutch East Indian mosquitoes. Bulletin of Entomological Research 25: 501-519 [503]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult diurnal biter in forest areas, larva found in axillae of small leaves of Curcuma [Zingiberaceae] plants, coconut shells, cut bamboos, tree holes and artificial containers.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [28] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Culex atripes Skuse, F.A.A. 1889. Diptera of Australia. Part V.—The Culicidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1717-1764 [1750].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♀ adult (Homebush is the first locality listed by Skuse, but the type specimen did not come from there; the specimen is considered as a holotype by Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [33]), Knapsack Gully, Blue Mountains, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Tripteroides (Tripteroides) atripes (Skuse, 1889).
• Tripteroides (Polylepidomyia) atripes (Skuse, 1889). —
  Harbach, R. 1 September 2011. Mosquito Taxonomic inventory Valid Species List. Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory. Http://mosquito-taxonomic-inventory.info/ [accessed on 11 October 2011]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult appears to be diurnal in biting activity and attacks humans and sheep; may become a nuisance pest in some rural areas if domestic container breeding is prevalent; isolation of Gan Gan virus from specimens collected on the south coast of NSW; larva found in tree holes and eucalypt stumps but commonly found in artificial containers such as water tanks, drums, tyres, jars and similar containers holding clean water (or with leaf debris) for long periods.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [33] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Tripteroides (Polylepidomyia) atripes)

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [33] (literature, distribution, biology)

Russell, R.C. 1993. Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Disease in Southeastern Australia. A guide to the biology, relation to disease, surveillance, control and the identification of mosquitoes in southeastern Australia. New South Wales : Published privately by Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead 195 pp. [10.181] (biology)

History of changes

• Tripteroides collessi Lee, D.J. 1946. Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). Part VI. The genus Tripteroides in the Australasian Region. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70: 219-275 [271].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (with associated larval skins), Upper Barron, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ adult, Upper Barron, north QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva colleced from rainforest tree holes and beer can ovitraps at Cape Tribulation, QLD.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [43] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Tripteroides marksae Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1965. The Mosquitoes of Victoria. (Diptera, Culicidae). Melbourne : Melbourne University Press 237 pp. [58].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins), Cabbage Tree Creek, VIC.
  Paratype(s) NMV 7♂ 7♀ adults (with associated larval and pupal skins); ANIC 2♂ ♀ adults (with associated larval and pupal skins); EUQ ♂ ♀ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins); BMNH ♂ ♀ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins); USNM ♂ ♀ adult (with associated larval and pupal skins).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Flinders (FLI), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult recorded biting humans in hoop pine plantation; larva found in stumps of eucalypts near rainforest margin, a hole in paperbark tea-tree, decayed wood placed in a hollow tree stump, tree holes, log holes and artificial containers such as tyres and trash; the smooth-siphoned larval form of this species develops in the absence of coarse debris in tree holes with small and/or side openings, while the spiny-siphoned form develops in larger tree holes containing coarse debris of wood or leaves; the response of 1st instar larvae to the medium determines their subsequent form.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [49] (literature, distribution, biology)

Russell, R.C. 1993. Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Disease in Southeastern Australia. A guide to the biology, relation to disease, surveillance, control and the identification of mosquitoes in southeastern Australia. New South Wales : Published privately by Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead 195 pp. [10.184] (biology)

History of changes

• Stegomyia punctolateralis Theobald, F.V. 1903. Two new Australian culicids. The Entomologist 36: 154-157 [156].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 10♂ 5♀ adults and unknown adult (1 male dissected, 3 male specimens on slide), QLD (as South Queensland).
• Tripteroides atripes occidentalis Brug, S.L. 1934. Notes on Dutch East Indian mosquitoes. Bulletin of Entomological Research 25: 501-519 [503] [originally described as Tripteroides atripes var. occidentalis].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, Oebe, Timor (Indonesia).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lee, D.J. 1946. Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). Part VI. The genus Tripteroides in the Australasian Region. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70: 219-275 [263]

Generic Combinations

• Tripteroides (Mimeteomyia) punctolateralis (Theobald, 1903). —
  Lee, D.J. 1946. Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). Part VI. The genus Tripteroides in the Australasian Region. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70: 219-275 [245]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Possibly introduced to New Caledonia.

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: pest, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Domestic pest in some places; larva found in tree holes, rot holes, fallen logs and a variety of artificial containers including tanks, water butts, tyres, fuel drums and vehicle bodies, sometimes in association with other mosquitoes.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [59] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Stegomyia tasmaniensis Strickland, E.H. 1911. Some new Culicidae from Western Australia, South Queensland, and Tasmania. New species found in a small collection of mosquitoes from Tasmanis (continued). The Entomologist 44: 249-251 [249].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 4♀ adults, TAS.
• Rachionotomyia cephasi Edwards, F.W. 1923. Mosquito notes.—IV. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 1-9 [8].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Mole Creek, TAS.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♀ adult, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [362]
• Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [70]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Distributed in areas with an average annual rainfall higher than 75 cm and is common in Victoria in elevated woodland, reaches its northern limit in the MacPherson-Macleay Overlap of eastern Australia.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult female autogenous, day-biting and attacks humans; larva found in tree holes, rock pools and artificial containers such as tyres, tins and water tanks.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [70] (literature, distribution, biology)

Russell, R.C. 1993. Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Disease in Southeastern Australia. A guide to the biology, relation to disease, surveillance, control and the identification of mosquitoes in southeastern Australia. New South Wales : Published privately by Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead 195 pp. [10.187] (biology)

History of changes

• Rachisoura Theobald, F.V. 1910. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 5 646 pp. [207].

  Type species:

   Rachisoura sylvestris Theobald, 1910 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Ils; Rachisoura is a purely Australasian subgenus.

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [73] (literature, taxonomy, distribution)

History of changes

• Tripteroides brevirhynchus Brug, S.L. 1934. Notes on Dutch East Indian mosquitoes. Bulletin of Entomological Research 25: 501-519 [503].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 6♂ 4♀ adults (one male with terminalia mount; one female with associated larval and pupal skins), Tanah Merah, Upper Digoel River (W of Mappi), New Guinea (Irian Jaya).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Distribution limited to range of host plant Nepenthes spp. [Nepenthaceae].

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult bites humans; all larval records from pitchers of Nepenthes [Nepenthaceae] plants.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [82] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Culex filipes Walker, F. 1861. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Dorey, New Guinea, by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 5: 229-254 [Date published 27 March] [229].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (stated to be in poor condition by Theobald, F.V. 1901. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. Mainly compiled from the collections received at the British Museum from various parts of the world in connection with the investigation into the cause of malaria conducted by the Colonial Office and the Royal Society. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. II viii 391 pp. and Edwards, F.W. 1927. New mosquitoes of the genus Rachionotomyia from New Guinea. Nova Guinea 15: 352–356), Dorey, New Guinea (near Manokwari, Vogelkop Peninsula, Irian Jaya).
• Tripteroides papua Brug, S.L. 1934. Notes on Dutch East Indian mosquitoes. Bulletin of Entomological Research 25: 501-519 [503].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂ adults (male labelled `cotype' has terminalia mount; E.N. Marks examined the cotype male of Tripteroides papua and concluded it was conspecifc with filipes sensu Lee, therefore papua was placed as a synonym of filipes, see Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [90]), 'Dutch East Indies'.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cooling, L.E. 1924. A synonymic list of the more important species of Culicidae of the Australian Region. Service Publication Department of Health Australian Tropical Division 2: 1-61 [11]
• Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [90] (new synonymy)

Generic Combinations

• Tripteroides (Rachisoura) filipes (Walker, 1861). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1932. Diptera. Fam. Culicidae. Genera Insectorum 194: 1-258 [76]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Distribution limited to range of host plant Nepenthes spp. [Nepenthaceae]

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult common biting in jungle; most larvae recorded from the pitchers of Nepenthes spp. [Nepenthaceae] but also found in rot holes in trees, tree holes, plant axils, bamboos, in Colocasia sp. [Araceae] and in pure culture in bamboos; larvae have been reported to kill other mosquito larvae.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [90] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes

• Tripteroides obscurus Brug, S.L. 1934. Notes on Dutch East Indian mosquitoes. Bulletin of Entomological Research 25: 501-519 [503].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, Tanah Merah, Upper Digoel River, New Guinea (Irian Jaya).
• Tripteroides (Mimeteomyia) subobscura Lee, D.J. 1946. Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). Part VI. The genus Tripteroides in the Australasian Region. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70: 219-275 [273].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Jacky Jacky, Cape York, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ adult, Jacky Jacky, Cape York, QLD; BMNH ♂ ♀ adult, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [111] (new synonymy)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Distribution limited to range of host plant Nepenthes spp. [Nepenthaceae]

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult common biting in jungle; type specimen was reared from a larva found in a Nepenthes [Nepenthaceae] pitcher; all other larval records from Nepenthes pitchers,.

General References

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H. & Russell, R.C. 1989. The Culicidae of the Australasian Region. Nomenclature, synonymy, literature, distribution, biology and relation to disease. Genera Tripteroides, Uranotaenia, Wyeomyia, Zeugnomyia. University of Queensland and University of Sydney in collaboration with Commonwealth Department of Community Services & Health. Monograph Series. Entomology Monograph No. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 11 306 pp. [111] (literature, distribution, biology)

History of changes