Australian Biological Resources Study

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Species Brinckochrysa scelestes (Banks, 1911)

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Species Brinckochrysa scelestes (Banks, 1911)

  • Chrysopa scelestes Banks, N. 1911. Notes on Indian neuropteroid insects. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 13: 99-106 [103].
    Type data:
     Holotype MCZ ♂, Bengal, Pusa, India.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known in Australia only from Thursday Is. and Murray Is., Torres Strait, also Micronesia.


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

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Oriental Region

  • India

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: predator.

Adult: volant.

 

General References

Adams, P.A. 1959. Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae and Chrysopidae. Insects of Micronesia 8(2): 13-33 [18] (for Myrmeleon inopinus Walker, 1853, Myrmeleon hostilis Walker, 1853, and extralimital synonymies)

Tsukaguchi, S. 1995. Chrysopidae of Japan (Insecta: Neuroptera). Tsukaguchi : Osaka [111] (redescription and Japanese records)

Winterton, S.L. 1995. A new genus and species of Apochrysinae (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from Australia, with a checklist of Australian Chrysopidae. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 139-145 [144] (first Australian record, from Murray Island)