Species Antipodogomphus acolythus (Martin, 1901)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Austrogomphus acolythus Martin, R. 1901. Les odonates du continent australien. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 19: 220-248 [233].

  Type data:

   Holotype RIB ♂, Gayndah, QLD.
• Austrogomphus manifestus Tillyard, R.J. 1909. On some rare Australian Gomphinae, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34: 238-255 pls xxii-xxiii [248].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Kamerunga, QLD (as Kuranda, in error).

  Type locality references:

  Tillyard, R.J. 1913. On some Australian Anisoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37(1912): 572-584 pl. lxii [22 July 1913]; Kimmins, D.E. 1969. A list of the type-specimens of Odonata in the British Museum (Natural History) Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 23: 287-314.
• Antipodogomphus acolytus Fraser, F.C. 1951. A note on the synonymy of some species of Australian Gomphidae (Odonata). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 87: 254-255 [254] [unjustified emendation of acolythus Martin, 1901].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fraser, F.C. 1951. A note on the synonymy of some species of Australian Gomphidae (Odonata). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 87: 254-255 [254]
• Watson, J.A.L. in Houston, W.W.K. & Watson, J.A.L. 1988. Odonata. pp. 33-132 in Walton, D.W. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 6. Ephemeroptera, Megaloptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Trichoptera. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service 316 pp. [93]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: 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), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larvae: burrower, lotic freshwater, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Stream, riverine, larva burrowing in mud and litter.

 

General References

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

Watson, J.A.L. & Theischinger, G. 1984. Regions of taxonomic disjunction in Australian Odonata and other freshwater insects. Odonatologica 13: 147-157

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	28-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)