Species Austrocerca tasmanica (Tillyard, 1924)

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• Spaniocerca tasmanica Tillyard, R.J. 1924. New genera and species of Australian stoneflies (Order Perlaria). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 48: 192-195 [195].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (damaged), Mt Wellington, TAS.
  Paratype(s) BMNH.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

King Is., Kangaroo Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Egg: aquatic.

Nymph: lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, pools.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph lakeshores, adult strong flier.

 

General References

Hynes, H.B.N. 1974. Observations on the adults and eggs of Australian Plecoptera. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 29: 37-52 (ovoviparity)

Hynes, H.B.N. & Hynes, M.E. 1975. The life histories of many of the stoneflies (Plecoptera) of south-eastern mainland Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 26: 113-154

Hynes, H.B.N. & Hynes, M.E. 1980. The endemism of Tasmanian stoneflies (Plecoptera). Aquatic Insects 2: 81-89 (distribution)

Kimmins, D.E. 1951. A revision of the Australian and Tasmanian Gripopterygidae and Nemouridae (Plecoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 2: 45-93 (description of male)

Richardson, A.M.M. & Swain, R. 1978. Freshwater Invertebrates. Lower Gordon River Scientific Survey Publication No. 6. Hobart : Hydro Electric Commission 70 pp.

Sephton, D.H. & Hynes, H.B.N. 1982. Observations on the first instar nymphs of several Australian stoneflies (Plecoptera). Aquatic Insects 4: 237-252

Suter, P.J. & Bishop, J.E. 1990. Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of South Australia. pp. 189-207 in Campbell, I.C. (ed.). Mayflies and Stoneflies: Life Histories and Biology. Proceedings of the 5th International Ephemeroptera Conference and the 9th International Plecoptera Conference. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic ix 366 pp. [194] (distribution)

Swain, R., Allbrook, P. & Lake, P.S. 1977. The aquatic invertebrate fauna of western Tasmania. pp. 81-100 in Kirkpatrick, J. & Banks, M. (eds). Landscape and Man. Hobart : Royal Society of Tasmania.

Towns, D.R. 1985. Limnological characteristics of a South Australian intermittent stream. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 36: 821-837

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-May-2011		11-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)