Species Dinotoperla opposita (Walker, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Perla opposita Walker, F. 1852. Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 1 (Phryganides-Perlides). London : British Museum 192 pp. [171].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ (Walker's syntype series contained specimens from Dr Hooker's collection and Mr Smith's collection from Van Diemens Land and from Captain J.C. Ross from New Zealand; Kimmins said the specimen from New Zealand was a misidentification and selected a female from Mr Smith's collection as a type), TAS (as Van Diemen's Land).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀; NMV T-9170.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kimmins, D.E. 1951. A revision of the Australian and Tasmanian Gripopterygidae and Nemouridae (Plecoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 2: 45-93 [64].
• Dinotoperla elegans Hynes, H.B.N. 1976. Tasmanian Antarctoperlaria (Plecoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 24: 115-143 [134].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-8333 ♀, Bulgobac Creek (as Bulgobec), TAS.
  Paratype(s) NMV T-8334 ♀.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hynes, H.B.N. 1982. New and poorly known Gripopterygidae (Plecoptera) from Australia, especially Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 115-158 [146]

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Nymph: lotic freshwater.

 

General References

Hynes, H.B.N. 1974. Comments on the taxonomy of Australian Austroperlidae and Gripopterygidae (Plecoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 29: 1-36 [26]

Kimmins, D.E. 1951. A revision of the Australian and Tasmanian Gripopterygidae and Nemouridae (Plecoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 2: 45-93 [63]

McLellan, I.D. 1971. A revision of Australian Gripopterygidae (Insecta: Plecoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 2: 1-79

Swain, R., Allbrook, P. & Lake, P.S. 1977. The aquatic invertebrate fauna of western Tasmania. pp. 81-100 in Kirkpatrick, J. & Banks, M. (eds). Landscape and Man. Hobart : Royal Society of Tasmania.

 

History of changes

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