Species Uranotaenia (Pseudoficalbia) hirsutifemora Peters, 1964

Museums

Regional Maps

• Uranotaenia hirsutifemora Peters, W. 1964. Mosquitoes of New Guinea (Diptera: Culicidae). Part IX.—Further new species of the genus Uranotaenia Lynch Arribálzaga and notes on the genus. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 33: 19-29 [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Port Moresby, Central District, Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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 taken in sweeping and light trap collections in marshes, rainforest, swamp forest, farmland and mangrove forest; larva and other immatures collected from rainforest and swamp pools, marshy depressions, swamps, a seepage hole in an evergreen forest and along a stream margin.

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. [204] (literature, distribution, biology)

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