Species Austromantispa imbecilla (Gerstaecker, 1885)

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• Mantispa imbecilla Gerstaecker, C.E.A. 1885. Vier Decaden von Neuropteren aus der Familie Megaloptera Burm. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein von Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen in Greifswald 16: 1-49 [publication dated 1884] [41].

  Type data:

   Holotype EMAG ♀, Rockhampton, QLD.
• Mantispa pullula Banks, N. 1910. Some Neuroptera from Australia. Psyche (Cambridge) 17: 99-105 [104].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (ex MCZ), Rockhampton, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 4♂ (ex MCZ).
• Necyla doddi Navás, L. 1914. Neuropteros de Oceania. (Segunda Serie). Revista de la Real Academia Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales de Madrid 12: 645-653 [651].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Rockhampton, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lambkin, K.J. 1986. A revision of the Australian Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) with a contribution to the classification of the family. II. Calomantispinae and Mantispinae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 117: 1-113 [29]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larva: parasitoid.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae parasitoid in egg sacs of Phryganoporus candidus (L. Koch) [Araneae, Desidae].

 

General References

Downes, M.F. 1994. Egg sac parasitism in the spider Phryganoporus candidus (L. Koch) (Araneae: Desidae) by the wasp Ceratobaeus setosus Dodd (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Australian Entomologist 21: 95-98

Esben-Petersen, P. 1917. Neue und wenig bekannte Mantispiden. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(10): 1-15 [11] (as Mantispa [Austromantispa] imbecilla Gerstaecker, 1885)

 

History of changes

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