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Notes on Australian Culicidae (Dipt.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Frank H. Taylor
Frank H. Taylor
Affiliation:
Entomologist, Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville.
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The writer some years ago described a mosquito under the name of Dixomyia elegans, the type of which remained unique until May, 1927, when a few adults, larvae and pupae were collected. The larvae and pupae were found in hoof-holes made by cattle on the edge of a swamp. The water in these holes contained a considerable amount of decaying vegetable matter and was comparatively clear. It was not examined for algae, except that both Nitella and Chara were noted as being absent. The B. D. H. Universal Indicator gave a colour change of greenish-yellow (7·0–7·5) in all samples of water tested for pH.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , October 1929 , pp. 271 - 277
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

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