Species Nesoxypilus albomaculatus (Werner, 1933)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paraoxypilus albomaculatus Werner, F. 1933. Prof. Dr. E. Handschin Studienreise auf den Sundainseln und in Nordaustralien 1930–32. Einige teilweise neue asiatische und australische Mantodeen. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 40: 441-447 [444].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNB ♂ adult, Burnside, NT.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Milledge, G.A. 1990. Revision of the genus Nesoxypilus Beier (Mantodea: Amorphoscelidae: Paraoxypilinae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 50(2): 347-355 [348].
• Nesoxypilus antennatus Beier, M. 1965. Über einige Mantiden von der Insel Prince of Wales. Pacific Insects 7: 449-452 [450].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ adult, Prince of Wales Is. (Cape York Ils), QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Milledge, G.A. 1990. Revision of the genus Nesoxypilus Beier (Mantodea: Amorphoscelidae: Paraoxypilinae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 50(2): 347-355 [347]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant, female flightless, female ant mimic.

 

General References

Milledge, G.A. 1990. Revision of the genus Nesoxypilus Beier (Mantodea: Amorphoscelidae: Paraoxypilinae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 50(2): 347-355 [348]

 

History of changes

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