• Indolestes Fraser, F.C. 1922. New and rare Indian Odonata in the Pusa collection. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture India, Entomological Series 7: 39-77 [57].

  Type species:

   Indolestes indica Fraser, 1922 by original designation.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

LESTIDAE: Lestes albicauda McLachlan, 1895 — 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

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Japan, SE Asia, India and SW Pacific.

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Distribution References

History of changes

• Austrolestes alleni Tillyard, R.J. 1913. On some new and rare Australian Agrionidae (Odonata). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37(1912): 404-479 pls xliv-xlix [19 Mar 1913] [425].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Cairns, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kimmins, D.E. 1970. A list of the type-specimens of Odonata in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 24: 171-205.
• Austrolestes albicauda tindalei Tillyard, R.J. 1925. Odonata, Neuroptera and Trichoptera from Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3: 41-44 [42].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I20548 ♂, Groote Eylandt, NT.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watson, J.A.L. 1969. Australasian dragonflies described by R.J. Tillyard, with the location of types and the designation of lectotypes. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 8: 153-160.

  Secondary source:

   Watson, J.A.L. & Moulds, M.S. 1979. New species of Australian Lestidae (Odonata). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18: 143-155 [152] (identities of paralectotypes).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watson, J.A.L. 1969. Australasian dragonflies described by R.J. Tillyard, with the location of types and the designation of lectotypes. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 8: 153-160 [159]
• Watson, J.A.L. & Moulds, M.S. 1979. New species of Australian Lestidae (Odonata). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18: 143-155 [152]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

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), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lentic freshwater, predator, volant.

Swamp.

Extra Ecological Information

Riverine pool, pond, larva unknown.

General References

Ris, F. 1913. Odonata von den Aru- und Kei-Inseln gesammelt durch Dr. H. Merton 1908 nebst Übersicht über die von den Aru-Inseln bekannten Odonaten. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34: 503-536 pl. 23 (called Austrolestes alleni Tillyard, 1913 from Cape York Lestes albicauda McLachlan, 1895)

History of changes

• Indolestes obiri Watson, J.A.L. & Moulds, M.S. 1979. New species of Australian Lestidae (Odonata). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18: 143-155 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 9877 ♂, 12º23´S 132º56´E, Cannon Hill, 7 km NW by N of Cahill's Crossing, East Alligator River, NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lotic freshwater, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults frequent shallow caves and overhangs, larva unknown.

Common Name References

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

History of changes

• Lestes tenuissimus Tillyard, R.J. 1906. New Australian species of the family Agrionidae (Neuroptera: Odonata). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31: 177-194 pl. xvii [19 Mar. 1913] [179].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Redlynch, near Cairns, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kimmins, D.E. 1970. A list of the type-specimens of Odonata in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 24: 171-205.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea and Aru.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lentic freshwater, predator, swamp, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Riverine pools, ponds.

History of changes