Species Tripteroides (Rachisoura) vanleeuweni (Edwards, 1927)

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• Rachionotomyia vanleeuweni Edwards, F.W. 1927. New mosquitoes of the genus Rachionotomyia from New Guinea. Nova Guinea 15: 352-356 [355].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀ adults, Rouffaer River, tributary of Mamberano River, Irian Jaya (as Netherlands New Guinea).

Distribution

States

Queensland

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

Larva found only in bamboos.

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. [128] (literature, distribution, biology)

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