Species Psychopsis elegans (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Artiopteryx elegans Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1844. Iconographie du Règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux. Avec un texte descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas a tous les traités de zoologie. Insectes. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 3 576 pp. [389].

  Type data:

   Holotype adult sex indet. (not traced), Nouvelle Hollande.
• Psychopsis newmani Froggatt, W.W. 1903. Notes on the genus Psychopsis Newman, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 453-456 [454] [nomen nudum, proposed for Psychopsis mimica sensu Froggatt, 1902])].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nectivorous, predator, volant.

Larva: arboreal, predator, subcortical.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva in bark crevices of Eucalyptus spp. [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

Froggatt, W.W. 1902. Notes on Australian Neuroptera and their life-histories. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27: 358-369 [367] (misidentified as Psychopsis mimica Newman, 1842)

Gallard, L. 1923. Life history of Psychopsis mimica. Australian Naturalist 5: 96

Tillyard, R.J. 1919. Studies in Australian Neuroptera. No. 7. The life-history of Psychopsis elegans (Guérin). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 43: 787-818

 

History of changes

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