Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Cryptoscenea australiensis (Enderlein, 1906)

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Species Cryptoscenea australiensis (Enderlein, 1906)

  • Helicoconis australiensis Enderlein, G. 1906. Monographie der Coniopterygiden. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung für Systematik 23: 173-242 [232].
    Type data:
     Holotype ZMB ♀ (represented by one pair of wings and one antenna, on slide), Sydney (as Sidney), NSW.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (introduced).


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, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria
  • New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: arboreal.

Adult: predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae predatory on Pseudococcidae [Homoptera].

 

General References

Kimmins, D.E. & Wise, K.A.J. 1962. A record of Cryptoscenea australiensis (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae) in New Zealand, with a re-description of the species. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology 2: 35-39