Open AccessA REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN SCORPION FLIES OF THE FAMILY CHORISTIDAE (MECOPTERA)
Author(s) -
Riek* E. F.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1973.tb01644.x
Subject(s) - biology , genus , scorpion , zoology , type species , ecology , venom
This endemic Australian family is confined to moist areas of south‐eastern Australia, excluding Tasmania. The eight known species are referred to three genera. One new genus, Neochorista , is described to include the type species, Panorpa ruficeps Newman, and N. insolita sp.n. Other new species are Taeniachorista bifurcata, T. similis and T. nigrita. Species separation in Taeniochorista Esben‐Petersen is most readily accomplished on the facial structures of male specimens. Adults of all species emerge in late summer and autumn.