Subspecies Uranotaenia (Uranotaenia) novaguinensis novaguinensis Peters, 1963

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• Uranotaenia novaguinensis Peters, W. 1963. Mosquitoes of New Guinea (Diptera: Culicidae) VII.—A new species complex of Uranotaenia Lynch Arribálzaga, 1891. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 32: 135-144 [141].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (with associated pupal pelt on slide mount), Ami, 10 miles NW of Maprik, Sepik District, Papua New Guinea.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ adult (with associated pupal pelt on slide mount; type series was reared from larvae, 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. [273]), Ami, 10 miles (approx. 15 km) NW of Maprik, Sepik District, Papua 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult taken in light, carbon dioxide and truck traps; larva collected from a slow running stream, sandy stream, cut-off pools in forested creek and drainage-line of raw sewage effluent; adults collected while biting a frog.

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. [271] (literature, distribution, biology)

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