Species Tripteroides (Rachisoura) obscurus Brug, 1934

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 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)

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

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