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Species Tasmanocoenis tillyardi (Lestage, 1938)

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Species Tasmanocoenis tillyardi (Lestage, 1938)

  • Coenis tillyardi Lestage, J.A. 1938. Contribution à l'étude des Ephéméroptères. XX. Notes synonomique: Coenis scotti Tillyard (1935) nec Ulmer (1930) =Coenis tillyardi nom. nov.. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique 78: 320 [320] [nom. nov. for Caenis scotti Tillyard, 1936].
    Type data:
     Syntype(s).
  • Caenis scotti Tillyard, R.J. 1936. The trout-food insects of Tasmania. Part II. A monograph of the mayflies of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 23-59 [56] [junior homonym of Caenis scotti Ulmer, 1930].
    Type data:
     Holotype whereabouts unknown, South Esk River, Clarendon, TAS.
    Paratype(s) AM nymph.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Lestage, J.A. 1938. Contribution à l'étude des Ephéméroptères. XX. Notes synonomique: Coenis scotti Tillyard (1935) nec Ulmer (1930) =Coenis tillyardi nom. nov.. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique 78: 320 [320]

 

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

SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lotic freshwater.

 

General References

Pinder, A.M., Trayler, K.M., Mercer, J.W., Arena, J. & Davis, J.A. 1993. Diel periodicities of adult emergence of some chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae) and a mayfly (Ephemeroptera: Caenidae) at a Western Australian wetland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 32(2): 129-135 [Date published May 1993] [134] (adult emergence)

Suter, P.J. & Bishop, J.E. 1980. The effect of mesh size on the interpretation of the life history of two mayflies from South Australia. pp. 381-403 in Flannagan, J.F. & Marshall, K.E. (eds). Advances in Ephemeroptera biology. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ephemeroptera. New York : Plenum Press Vol. 3