Species Metoligotoma ingens Davis, 1936

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• Metoligotoma reducta ingens Davis, C. 1936. Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part I. Systematics. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 61: 229-253 [250].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, Black Mountain, Canberra, ACT.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Murray-Darling basin.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT: Australian Alps (AA), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, herbivore, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Subsocial, amongst dead Eucalyptus leaves, nests occupied by scelionids, Embidobia australica Dodd and E. metoligotomae Dodd.

 

General References

Davis, C. 1938. Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part III: Revision of the genus Metoligotoma, with descriptions of new species, and other notes on the family Oligotomidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 63: 226-272 [235, 250] (description, raised to specific rank, key)

Davis, C. 1940. Taxonomic notes on the Order Embioptera. XIX. Genera not previously discussed. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 65: 525-532 [528] (list)

Dodd, A.P. 1939. Hymenopterous parasites of the Embioptera of the New World. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64: 338-344 [341, 342] (possible scelionid parasites)

 

History of changes

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