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Austrolestes

Major Group: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Family: Lestidae
Genus: Austrolestes

Descriptive Features:

  • prementum with proximal portion moderately slender and not abruptly expanded distally
  • margin of ligula bilobed or medially produced
  • 5 large and 2-3 smaller premental setae
  • outer portion of labial palps (fork) bifid or trifid
  • end hook thumb shaped with apex very short, the inner (mesal) border microscopically serrulate
  • Total length: 21.0-31.5 mm
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      Austrolestes analis
       

      Austrolestes analis female

      Taxonomic Checklist: Species
      (not all nymphs known)
      Austrolestes aleison Watson & Moulds, 1979
      Austrolestes analis (Rambur, 1842)
      Austrolestes annulosus (Selys, 1862)
      Austrolestes aridus (Tillyard, 1908)
      Austrolestes cingulatus (Burmeister, 1839)
      Austrolestes insularis Tillyard, 1913
      Austrolestes io (Selys, 1862)
      Austrolestes leda (Selys, 1862)
      Austrolestes minjerriba Watson, 1979
      Austrolestes psyche (Hagen, 1862)

      Distribution: Australia wide

      Functional Feeding Group: predators

       

      South Alligator River, Kakadu NT

       

      Information Sources: Hawking & Theischinger 1999, Hawking 1993
      Key to Species: Theischinger & Endersby 2009
      Hawking & Theischinger 1999 (NSW)
      Theischinger & Hawking 2002 (Vic)
      Watson 1962 (SWA)