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Species Notoligotoma nitens Davis, 1936

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Species Notoligotoma nitens Davis, 1936

  • Notoligotoma nitens Davis, C. 1936. Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part I. Systematics. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 61: 229-253 [246].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, Sylvania, 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, galleries in rough bark of Allocasuarina torulosa (Aiton) [Casurinaceae] and Eucalyptus spp., associated with lichen Cladonia on rocks, inhabiting lichens of ledges, bark flakes, and old fence posts, nests occupied by parasite, Embidobia longipennis 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 [255] (localities)

Davis, C. 1940. Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part IV: Supplementary taxonomic notes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 65: 155-160 [158] (MCZ specimens)

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 [527] (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 [343] (possible scelionid parasite)