Species Austroargiolestes icteromelas (Selys, 1862)

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• Argiolestes icteromelas Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1862. Synopsis des Agrionines, troisième légion: Podagrion. Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Academie Royale de Belgique 2 14: 5-44 [40].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RIB ♂, Melbourne, VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Theischinger, G. & O'Farrell, A.F. 1986. The genus Austroargiolestes Kennedy (Odonata: Megapodagrionidae). Odonatologica 15: 387-428.
• Argiolestes icteromelas nobilis 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] [410].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Ebor, 4,000–5,000 ft, 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.
• Austroargiolestes icteromelas nigrolabiatus Theischinger, G. & O'Farrell, A.F. 1986. The genus Austroargiolestes Kennedy (Odonata: Megapodagrionidae). Odonatologica 15: 387-428 [420] [nom. nov. for Argiolestes calcaris tenuis Fraser, 1959; Theischinger and O'Farrell, 1986, erroneously designated a holotype, see Argiolestes calcaris tenuis Fraser, 1959].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Argiolestes calcaris tenuis Fraser, F.C. 1959. New genera and species of Odonata from Australia in the Dobson Collection. The Australian Zoologist 12: 352-361 [360] [junior primary homonym of Argiolestes griseus tenuis Tillyard, 1913].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC 9846 ♂, Stoney Creek, Byfield, Rockhampton, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watson, J.A.L. 1968. Dragonfly types from the Dobson collection, with the designation of lectotypes. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7: 57-58.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Theischinger, G. & O'Farrell, A.F. 1986. The genus Austroargiolestes Kennedy (Odonata: Megapodagrionidae). Odonatologica 15: 387-428 [414]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, 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), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), 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), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), 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
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

General References

Lieftinck, M.A. 1976. The dragonflies (Odonata) of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands Part 2. Immature stages. Cahiers O.R.S.T.O.M. Séries Hydrobiologiques 10: 165-200

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	22-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)