Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Norfolius howensis (Tillyard, 1917)

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Species Norfolius howensis (Tillyard, 1917)

  • Myiodactylus howensis Tillyard, R.J. 1917. Odonata, Planipennia and Trichoptera from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42: 529-544 [542].
    Type data:
     Lectotype SAMA ♂, Lord Howe Is.
    Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♀; ANIC ♂; ANIC ♂.
    Subsequent designation references:
    New, T.R. 1982. A revision of the Australian Nymphidae (Inssecta: Neuroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 707-750.

 

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, Vic: 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), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Lord Howe Island
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: ground-dwelling, litter-dwelling, predator.

Adult: predator, volant.

 

General References

New, T.R. & Lambkin, K.J. 1989. The larva of Norfolius (Neuroptera: Nymphidae). Systematic Entomology 14: 93-98 (larva)