Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Atalophlebia australis (Walker, 1853)

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Species Atalophlebia australis (Walker, 1853)

  • Ephemera australis Walker, F. 1853. Catalogue of the species of Neuropterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum. Pt III Termitides and Ephemeridae. London : British Museum pp. 477-586 [538].
    Type data:
     Lectotype BMNH ♂ imago, TAS (as Van Diemans Land).
    Paralectotype(s) BMNH 3♂ imagos, 4♀ subimagos, TAS (as Van Diemans Land).
    Subsequent designation references:
    Tillyard, R.J. 1934. The trout-food insects of Tasmania. Part I. A study of the genotype of the mayfly genus Atalophlebia and its life history. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1933: 1-16 2 pls [12] (lectotype designation by holotype inference).

 

Distribution

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

SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.

 

General References

Suter, P.J. 1979. The effect of temperature on the hatching time of eggs of mayflies (Ephemeroptera) from South Australia. Newsletter of the Australian Society of Limnology 17(1): 40 [40] (hatching time of eggs)

Suter, P.J. 1986. The Ephemeroptera (Mayflies) of South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 19(17): 339-397 [342] (redescription)

Tillyard, R.J. 1934. The trout-food insects of Tasmania. Part I. A study of the genotype of the mayfly genus Atalophlebia and its life history. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1933: 1-16 2 pls