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Species Chorista australis Klug, 1838

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Species Chorista australis Klug, 1838

  • Chorista australis Klug, [J.C.F.] 1838. Versuch einer systematischen Feststellung der Insecten-Familie: Panorpatae und Auseinandersetzung ihrer Gattungen und Arten. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1836: 81-108 [101].
    Type data:
     Holotype ZMB ♀ (depository uncertain, 'Berlin Museum' according to Riek, E.F. 1973. A revision of Australian scorpion flies of the family Choristidae (Mecoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 103–112 [105]), Australia (as Neuholland).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

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

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: terrestrial.

Adult: volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae 'in soft soil or under debris' (<0027>).

 

General References

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

Potter, E. 1938. The internal anatomy of the order Mecoptera. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 87: 467-501

Tillyard, R.J. 1918. Studies in Australian Mecoptera. No. ii. The wing-venation of Chorista australis Klug. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 43: 395-408

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