Species Brachydiplax denticauda (Brauer, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diplax denticauda Brauer, F. 1867. Bericht über die von Hrn. Dir. Kaup eingesendeten Odonaten. (Schluss.). Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 287-302 [301].

  Type data:

   Holotype HLMD ♂, New Guinea (as Neuguinea).
• Brachydiplax australis Kirby, W.F. 1894. On a small collection of Odonata (dragonflies) from Queensland, with descriptions of five new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 14: 15-21 [18].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ris, F. 1910. Libellulinen 3. Fasc. XI pp. 245–384 1 pl. in, Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Brussels : Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. [363]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, permanent pond, predator, swamp, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Lagoons, larva unknown.

 

General References

Endersby, I. 2009. Nomenclatural amendments to the current Catalogue of Australian Odonata. Australian Entomologist 36(3): 99-101 (clarified type status)

Schneider, W. 2004. Friedrich Moritz Brauer's and Johann Jacob Kaup's types of dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Kaupia: Darmstädtter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 13: 77-87 (type located)

Theischinger, G., Hawking, J. & Orr, A. 2021. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 2nd edn.

Watson, J.A.L. 1973. Odonata (Dragonflies). Appendix 3 pp. 1–7 fig. 1 tables 1–4 in, Alligator Rivers Region Environmental Fact-Finding Study: Entomology. Canberra : CSIRO, Division of Entomology. (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	31-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)