Biology:Austrosimulium

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Austrosimulium
DIPT Simuliidae Austrosimulium australense.png
Austrosimulium australense
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Austrosimulium

Tonnoir, 1925
Type species
A. australense
(Schiner, 1868)[1]
Species

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Austrosimulium is a genus of 31 species of black flies that are distributed in Australia and New Zealand. There are 2 subgenera: Austrosimulium whose species are principally from New Zealand, and Novaustrosimulium which are exclusively Australian.[2] Austrosimulium is a sister genus to the monospecific Paraustrosimulium of South America.[3]

Some species are known to spread the protozoan blood parasite Leucocytozoon tawaki in penguins.[4][5][6]

In New Zealand, where they are known as sandflies or namu (in Māori from Proto-Austronesian *ñamuk "mosquito", compare with Malay: nyamuk),[7][8] three species – A. australense, A. tillyardianum and A. ungulatum – bite humans.[9][7]

Species

  • Subgenus Austrosimulium Tonnoir, 1925
    • A. albovelatum Dumbleton, 1973
    • A. alveolatum Dumbleton, 1973
    • A. australense (Schiner, 1868)[1]
    • A. bicorne Dumbleton, 1973
    • A. campbellense Dumbleton, 1973
    • A. cornutum Tonnoir, 1925
    • A. crassipes Tonnoir, 1925
    • A. dugdalei Craig, Craig & Crosby, 2012[3]
    • A. dumbletoni Crosby, 1976[6]
    • A. extendorum Craig, Craig & Crosby, 2012[3]
    • A. fiordense Dumbleton, 1973[3]
    • A. fulvicorne Mackerras & Mackerras, 1950
    • A. laticorne Tonnoir, 1925
    • A. longicorne Tonnoir, 1925
    • A. mirabile Mackerras & Mackerras, 1948
    • A. montanum Mackerras & Mackerras, 1952
    • A. multicorne Tonnoir, 1925
    • A. stewartense Dumbleton, 1973
    • A. tillyardianum Dumbleton, 1973
    • A. tonnoiri Craig, Craig & Crosby, 2012[3]
    • A. ungulatum Tonnoir, 1925
    • A. unicorne Dumbleton, 1973
    • A. vailavoense Craig, Craig & Crosby, 2012[3]
    • A. vexans (Mik, 1881)
  • Subgenus Novaustrosimulium Dumbleton, 1973
    • A. bancrofti (Taylor, 1918)
    • A. furiosum (Skuse, 1889)
    • A. magnum Mackerras & Mackerras, 1955
    • A. pestilens Mackerras & Mackerras, 1948
    • A. torrentium Tonnoir, 1925
    • A. victoriae (Roubaud, 1906)
  • Austrosimulium species as yet unplaced
    • A. colboi Davies & Györkös, 1988

Literature cited

  1. 1.0 1.1 Schiner, I.R. (1868). Diptera. vi In [Wullerstorf-Urbair, B. von (in charge)], Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara. Zool. 2(1)B.. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn. pp. 388pp., 4 pls. 
  2. Peter H. Adler; Roger W. Crosskey (2009). World Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae): A Comprehensive Revision of the Taxonomic and Geographical Inventory. pp. 109. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/blackflies/SimulidIntro.html. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Craig, Douglas Abercrombie McBeath; Craig, Ruth E. G.; Crosby, Trevor K. (2012-06-29). "Simuliidae (Insecta: Diptera)" (in English). Fauna of New Zealand 68. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.68. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44963749. 
  4. Douglas A. Craig; Trevor K. Crosby (2008). "Gynandromorphs of New Zealand Austrosimulium spp. (Diptera: Simuliidae)". Zootaxa (New Zealand: Magnolia Press) 1811: 57–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1811.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01811p068f.pdf. Retrieved 2009-03-25. 
  5. A. M. Fallis; S. A. Bisset; F. R. Allison (1976). "Leucocytozoon tawaki n.sp. (Eucoccida: Leucocytozoidae) from the penguin Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, and preliminary observations on its development in Austrosimulium spp. (Diptera: Simuliidae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology (Wellington, New Zealand: The Royal Society of New Zealand) 3 (1): 11–16. doi:10.1080/03014223.1976.9517893. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 T. K. Crosby (1976). "Austrosimulium (Austrosimulium) dumbletoni n.sp. from New Zealand (Diptera: Simuliidae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology (Wellington, New Zealand: The Royal Society of New Zealand) 3 (1): 17–19. doi:10.1080/03014223.1976.9517894. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Walrond, Carl (24 September 2007). "Sandflies and mosquitoes - Sandflies: New Zealand's blackflies". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/sandflies-and-mosquitoes/page-1. Retrieved 3 September 2017. 
  8. Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen (2010). "*ñamuk: mosquito". Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://acd.clld.org/cognatesets/30143#3/-11.54/148.25. 
  9. Early, John (2009). Know your New Zealand ... native insects & spiders. New Holland. p. 120. ISBN 9781869662530. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10736343 entry