Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Ditaxis biseriata (Westwood, 1852)

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Species Ditaxis biseriata (Westwood, 1852)

  • Mantispa biseriata Westwood, J.O. 1852. On the genus Mantispa, with descriptions of various new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ns 1: 252-270 [263].
    Type data:
     Holotype OUM ?adult sex unknown, Moreton Bay, QLD.

 

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

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: unknown.

Adult: predator, volant.

 

General References

Banks, N. 1913. Synopses and descriptions of exotic Neuroptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 39: 201-248 (Theristria sp. as Ditaxis biseriata, a misidentification)

Lambkin, K.J. 1986. A revision of the Australian Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) with a contribution to the classification of the family. I. General and Drepanicinae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 116: 1-142 [35] (taxonomy)

McLachlan, R. 1867. New genera and species, etc. of Neuropterous insects; and a revision of Mr F. Walker's British Museum Catalogue of Neuroptera, part II (1853) as far as the end of the genus Myrmeleon. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9: 230-281 [262] (taxonomy)