Species Tripteroides (Polylepidomyia) marksae Dobrotworsky, 1965

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Apr-2012		20-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)