Species Chaoborus queenslandensis (Theobald, 1905)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sayomyia queenslandensis Theobald, F.V. 1905. Diptera. Fam. Culicidae. Genera Insectorum 26: 1-50 [43].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ adult (Dr T. L. Bancroft, on pin with paralectotype), Burpengary (as Bupengary), QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ adult (Dr T. L. Bancroft, on pin with lectotype), Burpengary (as Bupengary), QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Colless, D.H. 1986. The Australian Chaoboridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 124: 1-66 [17].

  Type locality references:

  Colless, D.H. 1986. The Australian Chaoboridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 124: 1-66 [17].

 

Generic Combinations

• Chaoborus queenslandensis (Theobald, 1905). —
  Edwards, F.W. 1930. Notes on exotic Chaoborinae, with descriptions of new species (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 6: 528-540 [538]
  Colless, D.H. 1986. The Australian Chaoboridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 124: 1-66 [17]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Solomons: Guadalcanal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

• Malaysia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

Diagnosis

Best compared with ornatipennis, which it resembles in size and the pale body hairs, generally pale integument, and conspicuous adventitious spotting. Immediately recognisable by the conspicuous multiple banding of the legs.

 

Diagnosis References

Colless, D.H. 1986. The Australian Chaoboridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 124: 1-66 [17]

 

General References

Borkent, A. 1993. A world catalogue of fossil and extant Corethrellidae and Chaoboridae (Diptera), with a listing of references to keys, bionomic information and descriptions of each known life stage. Entomologica Scandinavica 24: 1-24 [16] (catalogue)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Jun-2011		06-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
		17-May-2011	MODIFIED