Species Promochlonyx australiensis (Ferguson, 1921)

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• Corethra australiensis Ferguson, E.W. 1921. Description of a new species of Corethra (Mochlonyx) from Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria N.S. 33: 30-31 [30].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV ♂ adult (24.xi.1915, J. Searle), Nyora, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) NMV ♀ adult (24.xi.1915, J. Searle), Nyora, VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Colless, D.H. 1986. The Australian Chaoboridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 124: 1-66 [28].

  Type locality references:

  Colless, D.H. 1986. The Australian Chaoboridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 124: 1-66 [28].

 

Generic Combinations

• Promochlonyx australiensis (Ferguson, 1921). —
  Colless, D.H. 1986. The Australian Chaoboridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 124: 1-66 [28]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval mouthparts indicate predaceous habit.

 

Diagnosis

Body dark brown, with brown or golden brown hairs and scales; thoracic pleura grey pruinose. Legs pale brown. Antenna1 flagellum uniformly brown in female, with clear basal sections in male. Wing normal or with a few scales on membrane close to m-cu.
Male genitalia. Coxites and styles dark brown. Style with 1-2 long setae externally near base and another on tergal surface near internal margin, at c. 1/4 length to apex; a variable number of shorter setae associated with these on basal half of shaft, and a cluster of numerous minute setulae near apex. Valves with long, unbranched arms projecting tergad, each terminating in a broad, rounded, knob-like apex, with a row of 2-4 strong teeth on shaft immediately basal to knob. Tergite 9 slightly emarginate.

 

Diagnosis References

Colless, D.H. 1986. The Australian Chaoboridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 124: 1-66 [29]

 

General References

Colless, D.H. 1977. A possibly unique feeding mechanism in a dipterous larva (Diptera: Culicidae: Chaborinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 16: 335-339 [335] (larval morphology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Jun-2011		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)