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Species Porismus strigatus (Burmeister, 1839)

  • Osmylus strigatus Burmeister, H. 1839. Neuroptera. pp. 757-1050 in Burmeister, H. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2 805-862 pp. [984].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, ZMB depository uncertain, 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), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: arboreal, cortical, predator.

Adult: diurnal, predator, volant.

 

General References

McLachlan, R. 1867. New genera and species, etc. of Neuropterous insects; and a revision of Mr F. Walker's British Museum Catalogue of Neuroptera, part II (1853) as far as the end of the genus Myrmeleon. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9: 230-281 [266]