Genus Gynacantha Rambur, 1842

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Regional Maps

• Gynacantha Rambur, P. 1842. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Névroptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret xvii 534 pp. 12 pls. [209] [Cowley, J. 1934. Changes in the generic names of the Odonata. Entomologist 67: 200–205 and Kimmins, D.E. 1936. Odonata, Ephemeroptera, and Neuroptera of the New Hebrides and Banks Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18(10): 68–88 pl. 3 discuss the applicability of the name Gynacantha Rambur, 1842; we follow the latter].

  Type species:

   Gynacantha nervosa Rambur, 1842 by subsequent designation, see Calvert, P.P. 1905. Neuroptera, Odonata pp. 145–212 pls viii in Godman, F.D. Biologia Centrali–Americana. London : R.H. Porter & Dulan & Co.

  Secondary source:

   Cowley, J. 1934. Changes in the generic names of the Odonata. The Entomologist 67: 200-205; Kimmins, D.E. 1936. Odonata, Ephemeroptera and Neuroptera of the New Hebrides and Banks Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 18: 68-88.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

AESHNIDAE: Gynacantha dohrni Krüger, 1898 [Tillyard (1916) tentatively included this Malaysian species in Australian fauna; Lieftinck, M.A. (1954) does not include Australia in its stated range]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumtropical.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Vanuatu

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Distribution References

General References

Lieftinck, M.A. 1954. Handlist of Malaysian Odonata. A catalogue of the dragonflies of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo, including the adjacent small islands. Treubia 22(Supplement): i-xiii 1-202

Tillyard, R.J. 1916. Life-histories and descriptions of Australian Aeschninae, with a description of a new form of Telephlebia by Herbert Campion. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 33: 1-83 pls 1-9

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	10-May-2022	MODIFIED
22-Feb-2022	AESHNIDAE	10-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
18-Sep-2014	ODONATA	10-May-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		10-May-2022	MODIFIED
		10-May-2022	MODIFIED