Species Chaoborus ornatipennis Colless, 1986

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chaoborus ornatipennis Colless, D.H. 1986. The Australian Chaoboridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 124: 1-66 [15].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 6042 ♂ adult (8.xii.1976, Z. Liepa), Kincumber, SW Terrigal, NSW.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

Diagnosis

Generally resembling C. vagus, but smaller and much paler; adventitious spotting usually
conspicuous; body hairs uniformly pale, except on palps and over dark bands on legs.

 

General References

Borkent, A. 1993. A world catalogue of fossil and extant Corethrellidae and Chaoboridae (Diptera), with a listing of references to keys, bionomic information and descriptions of each known life stage. Entomologica Scandinavica 24: 1-24 [16] (catalogue)

 

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)