AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: slender (L); body
Type locality: Muina, [Northeast] New Guinea
Type depository: Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Tenorio 1977 (Papuan subregion)
Lee et al. 1988a (Australasian region)
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1905f: 69 (M*)
Brug & de Rook 1922 (M*, F*, L*; taxonomy)
Lee & Woodhill 1944: 51 (M*, F*, L*)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 52 (M*, F*, L*; taxonomy)
Stone 1957b: 171 (taxonomy)
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1965 (Opinion 737; name validation)
Tenorio 1977: 323 (M*, F*, P*, L*; keys, bionomics, distribution; Papuan subregion)
Lee et al. 1988a: 38 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review; Australian Region)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. walchi Soesilo
1932: 1035 (L*; Anopheles). Type locality: Wadapi, Japen Island, New Guinea (LU). References: Lee & Woodhill 1944: 79 (? = gracilis); Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 76 (L*; taxonomy).
syn. occulta Bonne-Wepster
1951b: 71 (M*). Type locality: Pionnierbivak, [Western] New Guinea (NE). References: Stone 1957b: 171, 174 (synonymy; taxonomy).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bonne-Wepster, J. (1951b). Notes on Oriental and Australasian mosquitoes of the Malay Archipelago. Documenta Neerlandica et Indonesica de Morbis Tropicis, 3(1), 67–74.
Bonne-Wepster, J., & Swellengrebel, N.H. (1953). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Indo-Australian Region. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: de Bussy.
Brug, S.L., & de Rook, H. (1922). Bironella gracilis Theobald 1905 (Sous famille Anophelinae). Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 15, 305–310.
Lee, D.J., & Woodhill, A.R. (1944). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Australasian Region (Vol. 2). Australia: University of Sydney.
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 Ser
Soesilo, R. (1932). Anopheles (Bironella) walchi n. sp. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië, 72, 1035–1036.
Stone, A. (1957b). Notes on types of mosquitoes in the Hungarian National Museum (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 50(2), 171–174.
Tenorio, J.A. (1977). Revision of the genus Bironella (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 14(3), 317–361.
Theobald, F.V. (1905f). A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with description of new genera and species. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 3(1), 61–119.
CITE THIS PAGE
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