Species Gynacantha rosenbergi Kaup, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gynacantha rosenbergi Brauer, F. 1867. Bericht über die von Hrn. Dir. Kaup eingesendeten Odonaten. (Schluss.). Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 287-302 [295].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♂.
  Paralectotype(s) HLMD ♂.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Schneider, W. 2004. Friedrich Moritz Brauer's and Johann Jacob Kaup's types of dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Kaupia: Darmstädtter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 13: 77-87.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

NE QLD, Moluccas to Vanuatu.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea
• Vanuatu

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: crepuscular, predator, volant.

Larvae: lentic freshwater, predator.

 

General References

Endersby, I. 2009. Nomenclatural amendments to the current Catalogue of Australian Odonata. Australian Entomologist 36(3): 99-101 (clarified type status)

Lieftinck, M.A. 1951. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 64. Odonata of the 1948 Archbold Cape York Expedition, with a list of the dragonflies from the peninsula. American Museum Novitates 1488: 1-46 (distribution)

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

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 (possibly includes Gynacantha dobsoni Fraser, 1951, biology, larval description)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	28-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)