Species Isometrus melanodactylus (L. Koch, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lychas melanodactylus Koch, L. 1867. Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. II. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 173-250 [239].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Isometrus gracilis Thorell, T. 1877. Études scorpiologiques. Abhandlungen Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 19: 75-272 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♂, Australia.
• Isometrus papuensis Werner, F. 1916. Über einige Skorpione und Gliederspinnen der Naturhistorischen Museums in Wiesbaden. Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 69: 79-97 [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype WNS ♂, Bagadjim, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
• Isometrus melanodactylus inflatus Glauert, L. 1925. Australian Scorpionidea. Part 1. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11: 89-118 [117].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MMUS "several specimens", King Sound, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia; MMUS several specimens, King Sound, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)