<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%> Tripteroides (Polylepidomyia) tasmaniensis
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Tripteroides (Polylepidomyia) tasmaniensis  (Strickland, 1911)

 

Important - confirm the identification - this species is not wanted in New Zealand

It is important that the identification of your specimen is checked by a mosquito taxonomist. 

New Zealand Status: Not Present

Tripteroides tasmaniensis has the potential to be invasive because it will breed in artifical containers (Russell 1993) and has been intercepted in New Zealand (Laird 1995).

Vector and Disease Information

Adult females attack humans mostly during the day in sheltered siuations. There is no known relation to disease (Russell 1993).

Distribution

Australasian Biogeographic Region
NOT PRESENT; INTERCEPTED.
New Zealand - Intercepted 1993 (Laird 1995).

PRESENT; ENDEMIC.
Australia - New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (WRBU, 2001).

Rest of the World
NOT PRESENT.

Taxonomic Position

Tribe Sabethini.

Diagnosis

A diagnosis is the minimum set of characters and states that will separate this taxon from all others in this set of taxa.

 

Diagnostic characters State
Prespiracular setae Present
Base of hind coxa in line with base of mesomeron Yes

 

Characteristic Features

A smallish brown mosquito with the proboscis all dark scaled and longer than the abdomen. Scutum densely covered with narrow light-bronze scales. Wings all dark scaled (Russell 1993).