Species Theristria delicatula (Westwood, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mantispa delicatula Westwood, J.O. 1852. On the genus Mantispa, with descriptions of various new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ns 1: 252-270 [261].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM adult sex indet., Adelaide, SA.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA: 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), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

Larva: unknown.

 

General References

Enderlein, G. 1910. Klassifikation der Mantispiden nach dem Material des Stettiner Zoologischen Museums. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 71: 341-379 [368] (as Theristria delicatulata, lapsus)

 

History of changes

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