Species Mirawara purpurea Riek, 1955

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Regional Maps

• Mirawara purpurea Riek, E.F. 1955. Revision of the Australian mayflies (Ephemeroptera). I. Subfamily Siphlonurinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 266-280 [278].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ imago, Upper Cotter River, ACT.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 11♀ imagos.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lotic freshwater, predator.

 

General References

Campbell, I.C. 1980. Diurnal variation in the activity of Mirawara purpurea in the Aberfeldy River, Victoria. pp. 297-308 in Flannagan, J.F. & Marshall, K.E. (eds). Advances in Ephemeroptera biology. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ephemeroptera. New York : Plenum Press Vol. 3.

 

History of changes

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