Species Harpobittacus nigriceps (Sélys-Longchamps, 1868)

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• Bittacus nigriceps 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 [77].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RIB ♂, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) RIB 5♂ 16♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lambkin, K.J. 1994. Revision of the Australian scorpion-fly genus Harpobittacus (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 767-808 [799].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

General References

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

Thornhill, R. 1983. Cryptic female choice and its implications in the scorpionfly Harpobittacus nigriceps. American Naturalist 122: 765-788

Thornhill, R. 1984. Fighting and assessment in Harpobittacus scorpionflies. Evolution 38: 204-214

Willmann, R. 1981. Das Exoskelett der männlichen Genitalien der Mecoptera (Insecta). I. Morphologie. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 9: 96-150

 

History of changes

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