• Synthemis brevistyla Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1871. Synopsis des Cordulines. Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Academie Royale de Belgique 2 31: 238-316, 519-565 [564].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB ♂ ♀, Port Denison (as Dennison), QLD; type locality almost certainly erroneous.

  Secondary source:

   Martin, R. 1907. Cordulines. In, Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Brussels : Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. 1-94 pp. [17 Jan. 1907] (re types).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Tillyard, R.J. 1913. On some Australian Anisoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37(1912): 572-584 pl. lxii [22 July 1913] [574]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

General References

Hawking, J.H. 1986. Dragonfly Larvae of the River Murray System. A preliminary guide to the identification of known final instar odonate larvae of south-eastern Australia. Technical Report No. 6. Wodonga : Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation iii 64 pp.

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

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

• Synthemis brevistyla Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1871. Synopsis des Cordulines. Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Academie Royale de Belgique 2 31: 238-316, 519-565.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hawking, J.H. 1986. Dragonfly Larvae of the River Murray System. A preliminary guide to the identification of known final instar odonate larvae of south-eastern Australia. Technical Report No. 6. Wodonga : Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation iii 64 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larvae: lotic freshwater, predator.

Riverine, stream.

General References

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

History of changes

• Metathemis brevistyla subjuncta Tillyard, R.J. 1913. On some Australian Anisoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37(1912): 572-584 pl. lxii [22 July 1913] [574].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Dorrigo, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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.

Generic Combinations

• Eusynthemis brevistyla subjuncta (Tillyard, 1913). —
  Theischinger, G., Hawking, J. & Orr, A. 2021. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 2nd edn.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lotic freshwater, predator, volant.

Riverine, stream.

General References

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