Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Megacmonotus spectabilis (Gerstaecker, 1885)

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Species Megacmonotus spectabilis (Gerstaecker, 1885)

  • Suhpalacsa spectabilis 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] [84].
    Type data:
     Holotype EMAG ♀, Peak Downs, 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

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf
    • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: unknown.

Adult: predator, volant.