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Species Nannochorista maculipennis Tillyard, 1917

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Species Nannochorista maculipennis Tillyard, 1917

  • Nannochorista maculipennis Tillyard, R.J. 1917. Studies in Australian Mecoptera. No. i. The new family Nannochoristidae, with descriptions of a new genus and four new species: and an appendix descriptive of a new genus and species from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42: 284-301 [294].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH Tillyard Coll. ♂ (see Riek, E.F. 1954. The Australian Mecoptera or scorpion-flies. Australian Journal of Zoology 2: 143–168 [153]), Crater Lake Creek, Cradle Mtn, TAS.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic to Tasmania.

Australian Endemic.


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

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

General References

Evans, J.W. 1942. The morphology of Nannochorista maculipennis Tillyard (Mecoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 66: 218-255

Willmann, R. 1981. Das Exoskelett der männlichen Genitalien der Mecoptera (Insecta). I. Morphologie. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 9: 96-150