Species Ischnotoma (Ischnotoma) eburnea (Walker, 1848)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tipula eburnea Walker, F. 1848. List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. London : British Museum pp. 1-229. [69].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, TAS (as Van Dieman's Land).
• Tipula serricornis Macquart, J. 1846. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplément. Mémoires de la Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts de Lille 1844: 133-364, pls 1-20 [The date on the wrapper of the journal is 1846, the date on the title page is 1845. The last 4 pages of this paper in the journal (containing the index) are numbered 363, 364, 363, 364. The next article in the journal begins on page 365. The pagination of the reprint is continuous, thus the reprint appears to contain 2 additional pages. Reprinted with pagination 5-238, Roret, Paris, with "1846" on both the wrapper and title page. Reprint recorded in the 7 November 1846 issue of Bibliogr. Fr. The Bibliogr. Fr. mentions the journal version in the 22 August 1846 issue; it was presented by Macquart at the 22 July 1846 meeting of the Société Entomologique de France] [141] [original description is on page 13 of the reprint edition, junior objective homonym of Tipula serricornis Zetterstedt, 1838].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂ adult, TAS.

  Type locality references:

  Hardy, G.H. 1929. On the type locality of certain flies described by Macquart in "Diptères exotiques", supplement four. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 61-64 (doubts concerning the veracity of Verreaux specimens labelled Tasmania).
• Tipula albovariegata Macquart, J. 1855. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 5e supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 2 1: 25-156 [Recorded in the 18 August issue of Bibliogr. Fr. reprinted with separate pagination, 5–136, Roret, Paris, 1855] [36 (16)] [original description is on page 16 of the reprint edition].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, Adelaide, SA (as Nouvelle-Hollande, Nouvelle-Adélaïde).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vane-Wright, R.I. 1967. A re-assessment of the genera Holorusia Loew (=Ctenacroscelis Enderlein). Ischnotoma Skuse and Zelandotipula Alexander (Diptera: Tipulidae) with notes on their phylogeny and zoogeography. Journal of Natural History 1: 511-547 [540]
• Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1971. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. V. The genus Ischnotoma Skuse. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 5: 21-45 [24]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

General References

Alexander, C.P. 1944. New or little-known species of Australian Tipulidae (Diptera). II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 69: 1-15 (pupal observations)

Skuse, F.A.A. 1890. Diptera of Australia. Part VIII.—The Tipulidae longipalpi. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(1): 53-139, Pls. IV-VI [115] (synonymy of Tipula eburnea Walker, 1848 and Tipula albovariegata Macquart, 1855)

Wilson, F.E. 1929. Concerning Crane Flies. Victorian Naturalist 46: 88-94 (habitat)

 

History of changes

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03-Nov-2011		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)