Genus Mallada Navás, 1925

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mallada Navás, L. 1925. Neuropteros del Museo de Berlin. Revista de la Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisico-Quimicas y Naturales de Zaragoza 9: 20-34 [24].

  Type species:

   Mallada stigmatus Navás, 1925 by monotypy.
• Anisochrysa Nakahara, W. 1955. New Chrysopidae from Formosa. Kontyû 23: 143-147 [145] [introduced as a subgenus of Mallada Navás, 1925].

  Type species:

   Anisochrysa paradoxa Nakahara, 1955 by original designation.
• Triadochrysa Adams, P.A. 1978. A new species of Hypochrysa and a new subgenus and species of Mallada (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 54: 292-296 [294] [introduced as a subgenus of Mallada Navás, 1928].

  Type species:

   Mallada (Triadochrysa) triangularis Adams, 1978 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Adams, P.A. 1978. A new species of Hypochrysa and a new subgenus and species of Mallada (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 54: 292-296 [172] (for Anisochrysa)
• Brooks, S.J. & Barnard, P.C. 1990. The green lacewings of the world: a generic review (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 59: 117-286 [223] (for Triadochrysa)

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CHRYSOPIDAE: Mallada maculithorax (Kimmins, 1936) — New, T.R. 1996. Neuroptera. 1-104, 184 (App. III), 199-216 (Index) in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 28. Neuroptera, Strepsiptera, Mecoptera, Siphonaptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiii 230 pp. [Date published 15 August 1996] (the record of this species from Australia is erroneous and results from confusion over the type locality which is Banks Is., New Hebrides, not Banks (=Moa) Is., Torres Strait)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide, but scarce in Neotropical Region.

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)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

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

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

General References

Navás, L. 1925. Neuropteros del Museo de Berlin. Revista de la Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisico-Quimicas y Naturales de Zaragoza 9: 20-34

New, T.R. 1996. Neuroptera. 1-104, 184 (App. III), 199-216 (Index) in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 28. Neuroptera, Strepsiptera, Mecoptera, Siphonaptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiii 230 pp. [Date published 15 August 1996] (it is likely that many of the Australian species should properly be transferred to Dichochrysa Yang, 1991, but as yet this has not been formalised. Generic details are given by <0311>; and <0312>)

Tsukaguchi, S. 1985. A checklist of published species of Japanese Chrysopidae (Neuroptera). Kontyû 53: 503-506 [505] (raised to generic rank)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Oct-2024	CHRYSOPIDAE	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
28-Sep-2022	NEUROPTERA	25-Sep-2024	MODIFIED
25-Feb-2022	NEUROPTERA	03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED
		03-Oct-2024	MODIFIED