Species Tripteroides (Rachisoura) sylvestris (Theobald, 1910)

• Rachisoura sylvestris Theobald, F.V. 1910. A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 5 646 pp. [208].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ 4♀ adults (head, abdomen, wing and legs only of one on slide), Kuranda, QLD.
• Stegomyia hilli Taylor, F.H. 1914. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 454-468 [456].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description; specimen very damaged, 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. [122]), Melville Island, NT.

 

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. [122]

 

Generic Combinations

• Tripteroides (Rachisoura) sylvestris (Theobald, 1910). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1932. Diptera. Fam. Culicidae. Genera Insectorum 194: 1-258 [76]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), 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.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult day-biting; larva found in tree holes and bloodwood stumps in rainforest and monsoon forests.

 

General References

Edwards, F.W. 1921. Mosquito notes.—II. Bulletin of Entomological Research 12: 69-80 [456] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonymy of Rachisoura sylvestris and Stegomyia hilli with Rachisoura (i.e. Tripteroides) filipes on p. 79)

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. [122] (literature, distribution, 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)