Bironella gracilis Theobald, 1905

AUSTRALASIAN REGION

Family
Subfamily
Genus
Subgenus

 

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)

 

Associated Pathogens

 

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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