Species Pirara australiensis Boothroyd & Cranston, 1995

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pirara australiensis Boothroyd, I.K.G. & Cranston, P.S. 1995. Two Orthocladiinae (Chironomidae) genera common to New Zealand and Australia: Pirara n. gen. and Eukiefferiella Thienemann. pp. 389-408 in Cranston, P.S. (ed.). Chironomids — from Genes to Ecosystems. Melbourne : CSIRO iii 482 pp. [397].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (reared from larval stage), Rutherford Creek, Brown Mountain, NSW.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 49 pupal exuviae, 4 larvae, 4♀ 2♂ pharate, 1 ♀adult (reared from larva); NZAC 2 pupal exuviae; ZMBN 2 pupal exuviae.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: hygropetric.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva associated with hygropetric zones.

History of changes