Species Tripteroides (Rachisoura) brevirhynchus Brug, 1934

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• 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 and IMCRA regions

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

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