Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Sphodropoda viridis Tindale, 1923

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Species Sphodropoda viridis Tindale, 1923

  • Sphodropoda viridis Tindale, N.B. 1923. Review of Australian Mantidae. Records of the South Australian Museum 2: 425-457 [446].
    Type data:
     Holotype SAMA I 14061 2♂ adults, Mt Painter, Flinders Ranges, SA.

 

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, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
    • Northern Territory: W plateau
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin
    • South Australia
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
    • Western Australia: N coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant, female flightless.

 

Diagnosis References

Milledge, G.A. 1989. Scolodera pardalotus n.gen., n.sp. (Mantodea, Mantidae), from northern Queensland, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 41: 107-110 [199] (diagnosis)