Species Rhyothemis resplendens Selys, 1878

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhyothemis resplendens Selys-Longchamps, E. de 1878. Odonates de la région de la Nouvelle Guinée. Mittheilungen aus dem K. Zoologischen Museum zu Dresden 3: 289-323 [300].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) RIB Selys coll. ♂ ♀, NW New Guinea (as Nouvelle Guinée à Doré), Salawati; whereabouts unknown (whereabouts of remaining syntypes not traced), NW New Guinea (as Nouvelle Guinée à Doré), Salawati
  Comment: unnamed varieties from Cape York (as Cap York (Australie septentrionale)) and Batjan (as Ile Batchian).

  Secondary source:

   Ris, F. 1913. Libellulinen 7. Fasc. XV pp. 837–964 1 pl. in, Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Brussels : Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. [962] (re types).
• Rhyothemis turneri Kirby, W.F. 1894. On a small collection of Odonata (dragonflies) from Queensland, with descriptions of five new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 14: 15-21 [17].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Mackay, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kimmins, D.E. 1969. A list of the type-specimens of Libellulidae and Corduliidae (Odonata) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 22: 277-305.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ris, F. 1900. Libellen vom Bismarck-Archipel gesammelt durch Prof. Friedr. Dahl. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 1: 175-204 pls ix-x [178]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Moluccas, New Guinea and Bismarck Achipelago.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Riverine*.

 

General References

Theischinger, G., Hawking, J. & Orr, A. 2021. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 2nd edn.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	ODONATA	31-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)