Species Cordulephya pygmaea Selys, 1870

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cordulephya pygmaea Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1870. Sous-famille des Cordulines, Sélys (1). pp. iv–vii in, Comptes-rendus des séances de la société entomologique de Belgique: Assemblée mensuelle du 5 novembre 1870. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 14: iii-vii [vi] [pygmaea first established in a combined description of Cordulephya and its only included species pygmaea].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Melbourne, VIC (as Melbourne, Nouvelle-Hollande).

  Secondary source:

   Kimmins, D.E. 1969. A list of the type-specimens of Libellulidae and Corduliidae (Odonata) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 22: 277-305 (re type).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larvae: lotic freshwater, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Stream, riverine, larva in sections with accumulated silt and detritus.

 

General References

Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1871. Synopsis des Cordulines. Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Academie Royale de Belgique 2 31: 238-316, 519-565 (adult description)

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

Tillyard, R.J. 1911. On the genus Cordulephya. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36: 388-422 pls xi-xii (larval description, life history, biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	04-Apr-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)