Species Diphlebia lestoides (Selys, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amphipteryx lestoides Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1853. Synopsis des Caloptérygines. Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Academie Royale de Belgique 20(Annexe): 1-73 [67].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Australasia.

  Type locality 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.
• Diphlebia lestoides tillyardi Fraser, F.C. 1956. A new subspecies of Diphlebia (Odonata, Amphipterygidae) from Australia. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 92: 304-305 [304].

  Type data:

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

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kimmins, D.E. 1966. A list of the Odonata types described by F.C. Fraser, now in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 18: 175-227.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Fraser, F.C. 1956. A new subspecies of Diphlebia (Odonata, Amphipterygidae) from Australia. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 92: 304-305 [305]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, 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
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

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

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

Tillyard, R.J. 1909. Studies in the life-histories of Australian Odonata. Part ii. Life-history of Diphlebia lestoides Selys. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34: 370-383 pl. xxxiii

Tillyard, R.J. 1912. On the genus Diphlebia, with descriptions of new species, and life-histories. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36(1911): 584-604 pls xix-xx [8 Feb. 1912]

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	21-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)