Species Austrogomphus (Pleiogomphus) amphiclitus (Selys, 1873)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hemigomphus amphiclitus Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1873. Troisièmes additions au synopsis des Gomphines. Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Academie Royale de Belgique 2 35: 732-774 [757].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, QLD.
• Austrogomphus risi Martin, R. 1901. Les odonates du continent australien. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 19: 220-248 [232].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF ♀, QLD.

 

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]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larvae: lotic freshwater, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Stream, riverine.

 

General References

Fraser, F.C. 1959. New genera and species of Odonata from Australia in the Dobson Collection. The Australian Zoologist 12: 352-361 (erroneously transferred Austrogomphus amphiclitus (Selys, 1873) to Austroepigomphus Fraser, 1951)

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	28-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)