Species Uranotaenia (Uranotaenia) tibialis Taylor, 1919
- Uranotaenia tibialis Taylor, F.H. 1919. Contributions to a knowledge of Australian Culicidae. No. iv. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 43: 826-843 [839].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ANIC ♂ ♀ adult, Cairns, QLD.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
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), 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 caught in carbon dioxide-baited traps and a light trap at forest-swamp margin; adults also taken in rainforest, swamp forest, farmland and mangrove forest; larva collected from semi-shaded, slow-running river with vegetation, ground pools with algae and decaying vegetation in closed palm jungle and edges of reed area of a shallow swamp.
General References
King, W.V. & Hoogstraal, H. 1947. New species of New Guinea Uranotaenia of the tibialis group (Diptera: Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 39: 585-596 [593] (considered Uranotaenia antennalis may be the same as some other member of the tibialis group and consequently listed it as a queried synonym of tibialis, the type locality of both species being Cairns)
History of changes
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20-Apr-2012 | 29-Sep-2015 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |