Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Theristria delicatula (Westwood, 1852)

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Regional Maps

Species Theristria delicatula (Westwood, 1852)

  • Mantispa delicatula Westwood, J.O. 1852. On the genus Mantispa, with descriptions of various new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ns 1: 252-270 [261].
    Type data:
     Holotype OUM adult sex indet., Adelaide, 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

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA: 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), 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 Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: unknown.

Adult: predator, volant.

 

General References

Enderlein, G. 1910. Klassifikation der Mantispiden nach dem Material des Stettiner Zoologischen Museums. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 71: 341-379 [368] (as Theristria delicatulata, lapsus)