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Species Metoligotoma extorris Davis, 1936

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Species Metoligotoma extorris Davis, 1936

  • Metoligotoma extorris Davis, C. 1936. Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part II. Further notes on systematics. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 61: 254-258 pl. xii [256].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, Brush Is., near Ulladulla, NSW.

 

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: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, herbivore, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Subsocial, forming galleries amongst dead vegetation, particularly stems of Tetragonia expansa Murray [Aizoaceae], eggs parasitised by Embidobia metoligotomae Dodd [Hymenoptera: Scelionidae].

 

General References

Davis, C. 1938. Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part III: Revision of the genus Metoligotoma, with descriptions of new species, and other notes on the family Oligotomidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 63: 226-272 [237, 250] (description)

Davis, C. 1940. Taxonomic notes on the Order Embioptera. XIX. Genera not previously discussed. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 65: 525-532 [528] (list)

Dodd, A.P. 1939. Hymenopterous parasites of the Embioptera of the New World. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64: 338-344 [342] (scelionid parasite)