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Species Apteropanorpa tasmanica Carpenter, 1941

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Species Apteropanorpa tasmanica Carpenter, 1941

  • Apteropanorpa tasmanica Carpenter, F.M. 1941. A new genus of Mecoptera from Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1940: 51-53 [52].
    Type data:
     Holotype MCZ ♂, Mt Mawson, TAS.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic to Tasmania.

Australian Endemic.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: moss dweller.

Adult: apterous.

Extra Ecological Information

On snow or low shrubs at high elevations.

 

General References

Byers, G.W. 1991. Mecoptera. pp. 696-704 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 2 pp. 543-1137 (also states that the larva described by Evans (1942) is probably Apteropanorpa tasmanica)

Evans, J.W. 1942. A mecopterous larva from Tasmania and notes on the morphology of the insect head. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1941: 31-35

Mickoleit, G. 1975. Die Genital- und Postgenitalsegmente der Mecoptera-Weibchen (Insecta, Holometabola) I. Das Exoskelet. Zeitschrift für Morphologie der Tiere 80: 97-135

Mickoleit, G. 1976. Die Genital- und Postgenitalsegmente der Mecoptera-Weibchen (Insecta, Holometabola) II. Das Dach der Genitalkammer. Zoomorphology (Berlin) 85: 133-156

Pilgrim, R.L.C. 1972. The aquatic larva and the pupa of Choristella philpotti Tillyard, 1917 (Mecoptera: Nannochoristidae). Pacific Insects 14: 151-168 (the larva described by Evans (1942) is probably Apteropanorpa tasmanica)

Willmann, R. 1981. Das Exoskelett der männlichen Genitalien der Mecoptera (Insecta). I. Morphologie. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 9: 96-150