Species Agriocnemis pygmaea (Rambur, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Agrion pygmaeum Rambur, P. 1842. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Névroptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret xvii 534 pp. 12 pls. [278].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (Serville coll.) ♀, East India (as Indes orientales).
• Agriocnemis australis Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1877. Synopsis des Agrionines, 5me légion: Agrion (suite et fin). Les genres Telebasis, Argiocnemis et Hemiphlebia. Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Academie Royale de Belgique 43: 97-159 [155].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (MacLachlan coll.) ♀, QLD (as Queens' Land).

  Secondary source:

   Kimmins, D.E. 1970. A list of the type-specimens of Odonata in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 24: 171-205 (re type).
• Agriocnemis velaris Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1882. Memorias de historia natural. Odonates des Philippines. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 11: 5-34 [31] [Agrion velare Hagen, 1858 is a nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Manila (as Manille), Philippines.
• Agriocnemis hyacinthus Tillyard, R.J. 1913. On some new and rare Australian Agrionidae (Odonata). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37(1912): 404-479 pls xliv-xlix [19 Mar 1913] [457].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Sydney, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kimmins, D.E. 1970. A list of the type-specimens of Odonata in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 24: 171-205.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1882. Memorias de historia natural. Odonates des Philippines. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 11: 5-34 [31]
• Ris, F. 1916. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Odonata. Supplementa Entomologica 5: 1-81 [20]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Seychelles, S Asia, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Solomon Ils and Polynesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Seychelles

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines
• Taiwan

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nomadic, predator, volant.

Larvae: lentic freshwater, permanent pond, predator, swamp, temporary pond.

 

General References

Theischinger, G., Hawking, J. & Orr, A. 2021. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 2nd edn.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	01-Apr-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)