Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Mallada traviatus (Banks, 1940)

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Species Mallada traviatus (Banks, 1940)

  • Chrysopa traviata Banks, N. 1940. New Chrysopidae from Australia. Psyche (Cambridge) 47: 129-135 [132].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC ♂ (ex MCZ), Redlynch, N QLD.
    Paratype(s) ANIC 14 adults (ex MCZ).

 

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: Murray-Darling basin
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: predator.

Adult: volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae predatory on scale insects.

 

General References

Boros, C.B. 1984. Descriptions of the larvae of six Australian species of Chrysopa Leach, s.l. (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 833-849 (larva)

Winterton, S.L. 1995. A new species of Mallada Navás (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from Australia with a key to species. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 23-27 (distribution)