Species Ceriagrion aeruginosum (Brauer, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Agrion aeruginosum Brauer, F. 1869. Beschreibung neuer Neuropteren aus dem Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 19: 9-18 [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH 4544 ♀, Rockhampton, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Lieftinck, M.A. 1959. Synonymic notes on Brauer's types of Odonata in the Hamburg Museum. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg 21: 41-48 l pl. (location of type).
• Agrion (Ceriagrion) erubescens Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1891. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine XXXII. Odonates. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 10: 433-518 [516].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RIB ♂, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lieftinck, M.A. 1933. Odonaten aus Nordaustralien. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 40: 409-439.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lieftinck, M.A. 1959. Synonymic notes on Brauer's types of Odonata in the Hamburg Museum. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg 21: 41-48 l pl. [44]

 

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

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator.

Larvae: lentic freshwater, permanent pond, predator, swamp, temporary pond.

Volant.

 

General References

Lieftinck, M.A. 1949. The dragonflies (Odonata) of New Guinea and neighbouring islands Part VII. Results of the third Archbold Expedition 1938–1939 and of the Le Roux Expedition 1939 to Netherlands New Guinea (II. Zygoptera). Nova Guinea n.s. 5: 1-271 (distribution)

Lieftinck, M.A. 1951. The identity of some Malaysian species of Ceriagrion, with descriptions of two new species (Odon.). Treubia 21: 183-197 (male appendages, habitat)

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	23-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)