Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Pilacmonotus sabulosus (Walker, 1853)

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Species Pilacmonotus sabulosus (Walker, 1853)

  • Ascalaphus sabulosus Walker, F. 1853. Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Pt 2, pp. 193-476 [427].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH ♀, southern Australia.

 

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

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: predator, terrestrial.

Adult: predator, volant.

 

General References

McLachlan, R. 1871. An attempt towards a systematic classification of the family Ascalaphidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 11: 219-276 [256]