Open AccessFIRST RECORDS OF PROSOPISTOMA SEDLACEKI IN AUSTRALIA (EPHEMEROPTERA: PROSOPISTOMATIDAE)
Author(s) -
PEARSON R. G.,
PENRIDGE L. K.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1979.tb00867.x
Subject(s) - mayfly , nymph , biology , baetidae , ecology , zoology , invertebrate
Five nymphs of a mayfly tentatively identified as Prosopistoma sedlaceki (Peters) have been collected from four north Queensland rivers. These are the first records in Australia of the widely distributed but little‐known family, the Prosopistomatidae.