Species Mallada traviatus (Banks, 1940)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chrysopa traviata Banks, N. 1940. New Chrysopidae from Australia. Psyche (Cambridge) 47: 129-135 [132].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (ex MCZ), Redlynch, N QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 14 adults (ex MCZ).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae predatory on scale insects.

 

General References

Boros, C.B. 1984. Descriptions of the larvae of six Australian species of Chrysopa Leach, s.l. (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 833-849 (larva)

Winterton, S.L. 1995. A new species of Mallada Navás (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from Australia with a key to species. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 23-27 (distribution)

 

History of changes

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