Subspecies Agrionoptera longitudinalis biserialis Selys, 1879

Museums

Regional Maps

• Agrionoptera longitudinalis biserialis Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1879. Nouvelles observations sur les odonates de la région de la Nouvelle Guinée. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 14: 287-324 [304].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCG ♂, New Guinea (as Dorei et Andai, Nouvelle Guinée); RIB ♂, New Guinea (as Dorei et Andai, Nouvelle Guinée).

  Secondary source:

   Ris, F. 1909. Libellulinen 1. Fasc. IX pp. 1–120 1 pl. in, Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Brussels : Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. [144] (re types).
• Agrionoptera regalis 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 [643].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Cooktown, 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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [144]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lentic freshwater, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva unknown.

 

General References

Ris, F. 1919. Libellulinen 9. Fasc. XVI(2) pp. 1043–1278 in, Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Brussels : Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. [1069] (synonymised Agrionoptera longitudinalis biserialis Selys, 1879 and Agrionoptera longitudinalis Selys, 1878)

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		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)