Species Austroaeschna multipunctata (Martin, 1901)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Planaeschna multipunctata Martin, R. 1901. Les odonates du continent australien. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 19: 220-248 [238].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂, VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Theischinger, G. 1982. A revision of the Australian genera Austroaeschna Selys and Notoaeschna Tillyard (Odonata: Aeshnidae: Brachytroninae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 87: 1-67.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: montane, predator, volant.

Larvae: lotic freshwater, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Stream, riverine, small montane streams amongst macrophytes and also on rocks.

 

General References

Kiauta, B. 1968. The chromosome numbers of eight Old World dragonflies (Odonata). Chromosome Information Service, Tokyo 9: 3-4

Martin, R. 1909. Aeschnines. In, Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Brussels : Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. 85-156 pls 3-4 (placed multipunctata as a subspecies of Austroaeschna parvistigma Selys, 1883)

Theischinger, G. 1982. A revision of the Australian genera Austroaeschna Selys and Notoaeschna Tillyard (Odonata: Aeshnidae: Brachytroninae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 87: 1-67 (larval description, species distribution)

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

Theischinger. G. 2008. Austroaeschna ingrid sp. nov. from Victoria, Australia (Odonata: Telephlebiidae). International Journal of Odonatology 11(2): 241-247, pl. III [246] (updated distribution)

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] (restored multipunctata to specific rank)

Tillyard, R.J. 1916. Life-histories and descriptions of Australian Aeschninae, with a description of a new form of Telephlebia by Herbert Campion. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 33: 1-83 pls 1-9 (larval habitat)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	24-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
18-Jul-2012		18-Jul-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)