Species Chorista australis Klug, 1838
- Chorista 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 [101].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB ♀ (depository uncertain, 'Berlin Museum' according to Riek, E.F. 1973. A revision of Australian scorpion flies of the family Choristidae (Mecoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 103–112 [105]), Australia (as Neuholland).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: terrestrial.
Extra Ecological Information
Larvae 'in soft soil or under debris' (<0027>).
General References
Mickoleit, G. 1975. Die Genital- und Postgenitalsegmente der Mecoptera-Weibchen (Insecta, Holometabola) I. Das Exoskelet. Zeitschrift für Morphologie der Tiere 80: 97-135
Mickoleit, G. 1976. Die Genital- und Postgenitalsegmente der Mecoptera-Weibchen (Insecta, Holometabola) II. Das Dach der Genitalkammer. Zoomorphology (Berlin) 85: 133-156
Potter, E. 1938. The internal anatomy of the order Mecoptera. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 87: 467-501
Tillyard, R.J. 1918. Studies in Australian Mecoptera. No. ii. The wing-venation of Chorista australis Klug. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 43: 395-408
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
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12-Feb-2010 | (import) |