Subspecies Agrionoptera insignis allogenes Tillyard, 1908

Museums

Regional Maps

• Agrionoptera allogenes Tillyard, R.J. 1908. On some remarkable Australian Libellulinae. Part ii. Descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 637-649 pl. xiv [641].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Cairns, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kimmins, D.E. 1969. A list of the type-specimens of Libellulidae and Corduliidae (Odonata) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 22: 277-305.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Aru, Kei & Solomon Ils, New Guinea and New Caledonia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), 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

Australian Region

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

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Streams, larva unknown.

 

General References

Lieftinck, M.A. 1962. Insects of Micronesia Odonata. Insects of Micronesia 5(1): 1-95 1 map (as a subspecies of Agrionoptera papuensis Selys, 1878)

Ris, F. 1909. Libellulinen 2. Fasc. X pp. 121–244 1 pl. in, Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Brussels : Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. [142] (taxonomic decision for sub-specific status)

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	31-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		08-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)