Species Uranotaenia (Uranotaenia) moresbyensis Peters, 1963

Museums

Regional Maps

• Uranotaenia moresbyensis Peters, W. 1963. Mosquitoes of New Guinea (Diptera: Culicidae). Part VIII.—New species of the genus Uranotaenia Lynch Arribálzaga, 1891. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 32: 203-209 [204].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (genitalia and legs on slide mount), 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: nothing known.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult taken in light traps in forest areas.

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. [260] (literature, distribution, biology)

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