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Genus Ankylopteryx Brauer, 1864

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Genus Ankylopteryx Brauer, 1864

  • Ankylopteryx Brauer, F. 1864. Beiträge zur kenntnis der Neuropteren. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 14: 896-902 [899].
    Type species:
     Chrysopa venusta Hagen, 1853 by subsequent designation, see Tjeder, B. 1966. Neuroptera-Planipennia. The lacewings of southern Africa. 5. Family Chrysopidae. South African Animal Life 12: 228-534 [493]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Africa, Indo-Australian region.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Afrotropical Region

  • Madagascar

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • Tasmania

Oriental Region

Distribution References

  • Brooks, S.J. & Barnard, P.C. 1990. The green lacewings of the world: a generic review (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 59: 117-286 [157] (divided the genus into two major groups: Sencera Navás, 1925 in Indo-Australian region and Ankylopteryx s.s. in African region)

General References

Brauer, F. 1864. Beiträge zur kenntnis der Neuropteren. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 14: 896-902

Tjeder, B. 1966. Neuroptera-Planipennia. The lacewings of southern Africa. 5. Family Chrysopidae. South African Animal Life 12: 228-534 [493] (for extralimital synonymy)