Species Harpobittacus australis (Klug, 1838)
- Bittacus australis Klug, [J.C.F.] 1838. Versuch einer systematischen Feststellung der Insecten-Familie: Panorpatae und Auseinandersetzung ihrer Gattungen und Arten. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1836: 81-108 [100].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB ♂ (mistaken as ♀ in original description), Australia (as New Holland). - Bittacus corethrarius Rambur, J.P. 1842. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Névroptères. Paris : Roret xvii 529 pp. 12 pls. [Publication date established from Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with Biographical Notes on Authors and Collectors. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales viii 380 pp. [264]] [327].
Type data:
Holotype RIB ♂, locality unknown. - Bittacus intermedius Sélys-Longchamps, E. de 1868. Diagnose d'un nouveau genre d'Agrionine d'Australie: Synlestes Weyersii, et d'une Panorpide nouvelle d'Australie: Bittacus nigriceps. Bulletin ou Comptes-rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 11: LXXVI-LXXVIII [LXXVIII].
Type data:
Lectotype RIB ♀, QLD.
Paralectotype(s) RIB ♀.Subsequent designation references:
Lambkin, K.J. 1994. Revision of the Australian scorpion-fly genus Harpobittacus (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 767-808 [773]. - Harpobittacus australis rubripes Riek, E.F. 1954. The Australian Mecoptera or scorpion-flies. Australian Journal of Zoology 2: 143-168 [160].
Type data:
Lectotype ANIC ♂, Barrington Tops, NSW.
Paralectotype(s) ANIC 6♂ 4♀.Subsequent designation references:
Lambkin, K.J. 1994. Revision of the Australian scorpion-fly genus Harpobittacus (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 767-808 [773].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Sélys-Longchamps, E. de 1868. Diagnose d'un nouveau genre d'Agrionine d'Australie: Synlestes Weyersii, et d'une Panorpide nouvelle d'Australie: Bittacus nigriceps. Bulletin ou Comptes-rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 11: LXXVI-LXXVIII [78] (Bittacus corethrarius Rambur, 1842)
- Esben-Petersen, P. 1915. A synonymic list of the order Mecoptera. Entomologiske Meddelelser 10: 216-242 [240] (Bittacus intermedius Sélys-Longchamps, 1868)
- Lambkin, K.J. 1994. Revision of the Australian scorpion-fly genus Harpobittacus (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 767-808 [772] (Harpobittacus australis rubripes Riek, 1954)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), 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)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin
- South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: arthropod-feeder, volant.
Larva: saprophagous, terrestrial, under litter.
General References
Alcock, J. 1979. Selective mate choice by females of Harpobittacus australis (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 86: 213-217
Bornemissza, G.F. 1966. Observations on the hunting and mating behaviour of two species of scorpion flies (Bittacidae: Mecoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 371-382
Crossley, A.C. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1969. The ultrastructure of a pheromone secreting gland in the male scorpion-fly Harpobittacus australis (Bittacidae: Mecoptera). Tissue and Cell 1: 273-294
Currie, G.A. 1932. Some notes on the biology and morphology of the immature stages of Harpobittacus tillyardi (Order Mecoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57: 116-122 (life history—as
Hinton, H.E. 1981. Biology of Insect Eggs. Oxford : Pergamon Press 3 vols.
Mickoleit, G. 1975. Die Genital- und Postgenitalsegmente der Mecoptera-Weibchen (Insecta, Holometabola) I. Das Exoskelet. Zeitschrift für Morphologie der Tiere 80: 97-135
Potter, E. 1938. The internal anatomy of the order Mecoptera. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 87: 467-501 (anatomy, as Harpobittacus tillyardi Esben-Petersen)
History of changes
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