Species Austrogomphus (Pleiogomphus) bifurcatus Tillyard, 1909

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• Austrogomphus bifurcatus 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 [244].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Atherton, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Atherton Tablelands and high country inland of Mossman.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lotic freshwater, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Stream, primarily in rainforest, larva unknown.

 

General References

Lieftinck, M.A. 1951. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 64. Odonata of the 1948 Archbold Cape York Expedition, with a list of the dragonflies from the peninsula. American Museum Novitates 1488: 1-46 (taxonomy)

Sjöstedt, Y. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913 16. Odonaten. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(11): 1-44 (taxonomy)

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)