Species Italochrysa insignis (Walker, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chrysopa insignis Walker, F. 1853. List of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Part 2 (Sialidae-Neuropterides). London : British Museum pp. 193-476. [267].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH adult sex indet., Australasia.
• Chrysopa stictoneura Gerstaecker, C.E.A. 1885. Zwei fernere Decaden Australischen Neuropteren Megaloptera. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein von Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen in Greifswald 16: 84-116 [publication dated 1884] [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype EMAG adult sex indet., Australia.
• Nothochrysa insignita Navás, L. 1913. Les chrysopides (Ins. Neur) du Musée de Londres. Annales de la Société Royale des Sciences, Bruxelles 37: 292-330 [323].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH adult sex indet., Townsville, QLD.
• Nothochrysa xanthocephala Navás, L. 1932. Decadas de insectos nuevos. Decada 22. Brotéria. Serie Ciências Naturais 28: 145-155 [146].

  Type data:

   Holotype adult sex indet., Sydney.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Esben-Petersen, P. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–13. 18. Neuroptera and Mecoptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 11: 1-37 [27] (for Nothochrysa insignita Navás, 1913)
• New, T.R. 1980. A revision of the Australian Chrysopidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 77: 1-143 [20] (for Nothochrysa xanthocephala Navás, 1932)

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larva: predator.

 

General References

New, T.R. 1983. The egg and first instar larva of Italochrysa insignis (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 10: 29-32

Tauber, C.A. & Winterton, S.L. 2014. Third instar of the myrmecophilous Italochrysa insignis (Walker) from Australia (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Belonopterygini). Zootaxa 3811(1): 95–106

 

History of changes

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		09-Sep-2014	MODIFIED