Species Uranotaenia (Uranotaenia) nivipes (Theobald, 1905)

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• Anisocheleomyia nivipes Theobald, F.V. 1905. A new genus of Culicidae. The Entomologist 38: 52-56 [53].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (on slide; T.L. Bancroft, the collector of the type specimens, amplifies the type location as given by Theobald, F.V. 1905. A new genus of Culicidae. Entomologist 38: 52–56 by stating that the specimens were found at Deception Bay, see Bancroft, T.L. 1908. List of the mosquitoes of Queensland, with the original descriptions and notes on the life-history of a number. Annals of the Queensland Museum 8: 1–64), QLD (as South Queensland).
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂ adult (on slide), South Queensland.
• Uranotaenia albofasciata Taylor, F.H. 1920. Australian phlebotomic Diptera:—new Culicidae Tabanidae and synonymy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 32: 164-167 [164].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA ♂ adult (number of syntypes not stated in original description), Darwin, NT.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cooling, L.E. 1924. A synonymic list of the more important species of Culicidae of the Australian Region. Service Publication Department of Health Australian Tropical Division 2: 1-61 [9] (also for U. albofasciata)
• Edwards, F.W. 1924. A synopsis of the adult mosquitoes of the Australasian Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 351-401 [357] (for U. albofasciata)
• 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. [267] (discussion of synonymies and extralimital synonymies)

 

Generic Combinations

• Uranotaenia nivipes (Theobald, 1905). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1922. A synopsis of adult Oriental Culicine (including Megarhinine and Sabethine) mosquitoes. Part II. Indian Journal of Medical Research 10(2): 430-475 [460]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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 carbon dioxide, truck and calf-baited traps; adults attracted readily to light; immature stages collected from shaded pools in a creek and rice fields during summer and winter crops; adults feed on amphibians or reptiles, oxen and fowl.

 

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. [263] (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)