AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: black, indistinct (L); lacks baso-tergal lobe and setae on gonocoxite.
Type locality: Sepik, Vanimo, Daunda, Sepik District, NE New Guinea
Type depository: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, United States (BBM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Lee et al. 1988a (F key; Australasian Region)
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Tenorio 1975: 734 (M*, F, P*, L*).
Tenorio 1977: 339 (M*, P*, L*)
Lee et al. 1988a: 50 (F key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review; Australasian Region)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., . . . Marks, E.N. (1988a). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 6). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series 2. Canberra: Australian Government.
Tenorio, J.A. (1975). Bironella (Brugella) obscura, a new species of mosquito from New Guinea (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 11(for 1974)(6), 734–738.
Tenorio, J.A. (1977). Revision of the genus Bironella (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 14(3), 317–361.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Bironella obscura species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/obscura, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
