Species Campion australasiae (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mantispa australasiae Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1844. Iconographie du Règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux. Avec un texte descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas a tous les traités de zoologie. Insectes. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 3 576 pp. [392].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂, unknown (Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Mantispa pictiventris Gerstaecker, C.E.A. 1885. Zwei fernere Decaden Australischen Neuropteren Megaloptera. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein von Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen in Greifswald 16: 84-116 [publication dated 1884] [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype EMAG ♂, Rockhampton, QLD.
• Isla verendus Navás, L. 1914. Neuropteros de Oceania. (Segunda Serie). Revista de la Real Academia Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales de Madrid 12: 645-653 [652].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Melbourne, VIC.
• Mantispa tillyardi Esben-Petersen, P. 1914. Australian Neuroptera. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 635-645 [642].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM ♂, Cuballing, WA.
  Paratype(s) ZMUC ♂ ♀.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lambkin, K.J. 1986. A revision of the Australian Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) with a contribution to the classification of the family. II. Calomantispinae and Mantispinae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 117: 1-113 [15]
• Oswald, J.D. & Penny, N.D. 1991. Genus-group names of the Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Raphidioptera of the world. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 147: 1-94 [14] (were unable to determine the priority of Campion and Isla; they followed the above sequence, after Lambkin op. cit)

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: predator.

Adult: predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae predatory in egg sacs of wolf spiders [Lycosidae].

 

General References

McKeown, K.C. & Mincham, H. 1948. The biology of an Australian mantispid (Mantispa vittata Guérin). The Australian Zoologist 11: 207-224 (oviposition, life history)

Stitz, H. 1913. Mantispiden der Sammlung des Berliner Museums. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 7: 1-49 [39] (as Climaciella australasiae (Guérin-Méneville, 1844))