Species Diphlebia coerulescens Tillyard, 1913

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diphlebia euphaeoides coerulescens Tillyard, R.J. 1913. Some descriptions of new forms of Australian Odonata. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 229-241 pl. xv [235].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Tamborine Mtn (as Mt Tambourine), QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kimmins, D.E. 1969. A list of the type-specimens of Odonata in the British Museum (Natural History) Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 23: 287-314.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larvae: lotic freshwater, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Streams, riverine.

 

General References

Stewart, W.E. 1980. The Australian genus Diphlebia Selys (Odonata: Amphipterygidae) I. Taxonomic revision of the adults. II. Taxonomy of the larvae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 75: 1-72 (raised coerulescens to specific rank, larva)

Watson, J.A.L. & Theischinger, G. 1984. Regions of taxonomic disjunction in Australian Odonata and other freshwater insects. Odonatologica 13: 147-157 (distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	22-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)