Austrolestes psyche Tillyard 1913
Creators: name: J. A. L. Watson
name: M. S. Moulds
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1979
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Lestidae
Austrolestes
Austrolestes psyche

description: <b>Austrolestes psyche</b> (Hagen in Selys) (Figs 1, 7, 8, 13, 14, 22-24) <i>Lestes psyche</i> Hagen; Selys, 1862: 45. <i>Lestes psyche</i> Selys; Tillyard, 1908: 738 <i>(partim</i>). <i>Lestes psyche</i> (Hagen); Ris, 1910: 423, 427 <i>(partim).</i> Austrolestes <i>psyche</i> Selys /Hagen et Selys; Tillyard, 1913: 425,473 <i>(partim</i>). Austrolestes <i>psyche</i> (Selys); <i>Fraser</i>, 1960: 9 <i>(partim),</i> 24 <i>(partim</i>), Plate 8(5), Plate 9(s). <i>Lestes</i> (Austrolestes <i>) psyche</i> (Selys); Lieftinclc, 1960: 139 <i>(partim).</i> Austrolestes <i>psyche</i> (Selys); W atson, 1974: 142. <i>Types.—</i> Austrolestes <i>psyche</i> was described from <i>specimens</i> of both sexes, in the Hagen and Selys collections (Selys 1862); Selys attributed authorship to Hagen. Inquiry of M CZ indicated that four supposed types of <i>psyche</i> were preserved in the Hagen collection there, and resulted <i>in</i> the transfer ofthe four to ANIC. The four specimens include two species, one <i>&amp;male;</i> and one &amp;female; of the species described by Hagen as <i>psyche</i>, and two o f the species described <i>by</i> Selys (1862, p. 47) as <i>Lestes leda.</i> The labelling is as follows: 1. “ Type 12137 ” (red, <b>MCZ</b> label); “ Hagen.” (white, <i>printed</i>); "Nord O s t... v. A u strali.. [white, handwritten and difficult to interpret; probably Hagen’s <i>hand</i> (Fig. 28)]; “ L. Psyche * Hag.” [white, handwritten by Hagen (Fig. 29)]. Male <i>specimen</i> o f Austrolestes <i>leda</i>, lacking head. 2. “ Type2 12137” (red, MCZ label); “ Hagen.” (white, printed); “ Neu Holland Melbourne <i>Thorey</i>.” [white, handwritten, probably <i>by</i> Hagen (Fig. 30)]. Male <i>specimen</i> of Austrolestes leda, intact. 3. “ Type3 12137” (red, MCZ label); “ Hagen.” (white, printed); “L. <i>Psyche</i> ” [white, handwritten, Hagen's hand, but not identical to label on first type (<i>Fig</i>. 31)]. Female <i>specimen</i> of Austrolestes <i>psyche,</i> lacking segments 7-10 o f abdomen, and <i>tip</i> of left hind wing. 4. “ Type4 12137” (red, MCZ label); “ Hagen.” (white, printed); “ N: Hoi:” [white, handwritten (Fig. 32)]; “ L. Psyche” [white, handwritten, Hagen’s hand, similar to label on &amp;female; (Fig. 33)]. Male <i>specimen</i> of Austrolestes <i>psyche,</i> lacking segments 6-10 of abdomen. Selys (1862) gave "Nouvelle-Hollande” as the locality for <i>psyche,</i> which agrees with the label on the fourth type. It, and probably also the female, must have been part ofthe type <i>series</i> of <i>Lestes psyche</i> Hagen in Selys. The label data o fthe other two males do not fit the type locality o f <i>psyche.</i> However, they fit the localities given <i>by</i> Selys (1862) for <i>leda:</i> “ Nouvelle-Hollande, Melbourne, cote nord-est”; the label on the first type can be interpreted as "Nord Ost Kuste von Australien”. Although Selys did not indicate that any of the type series of <i>leda</i> were in Hagen’s collection, the close correlation between the text and label data, and the fact that these data do not apply to any other <i>Lestes</i> described in Selys (1862), indicate that the two males were part of the type <i>series</i> of <i>Lestes leda</i> Selys. The lectotype designations follow. <i>Lestes psyche</i> Hagen <i>in</i> Selys: <i>Lectotype &amp;male;,</i> by present designation, <i>in</i> ANIC (Type No 9863), “ N: H o ll”, “Type4 12137” in original MCZ register, other labels as given above, plus handwritten red label “ LECTOTYPE tJ <i>Lestes psyche</i> Hagen in Selys 1862 desig. J. A. L. W atson 1979 A.N.l.C. Type No. 9863”. <i>Lestes leda</i> Selys; <i>Lectotype &amp;male;,</i> by present designation, in ANIC (Type No. 9875), "Neu Holland Melbourne Thorey.”, “Type2 12137’" <i>in</i> original MCZ register, other labels as given above, plus <i>"</i> Austrolestes <i>leda</i> (Selys) det. J. A. L. Watson, 1967.” (white, printed) and "LECTOTYPE <i>&amp;male; Lestes leda Selys 1862</i> desig. J. A. L. Watson 1979 A.N.l.C. Type No. 9875” (red, handwritten). <i>Other</i> material <i>examined--</i> Queensland: seven &amp;male;&amp;male;, North Stradbroke Island, stream draining into Brown Lake, 5-8.i. 1976, J. A. L Watson and A. H. Arthington. New South Wales; one <i>&amp;male;,</i> two <i>&amp;female;&amp;female;</i>, 3 km N of Lennox Heads, I7. i. 1976, J. A. L. Watson; six &amp;male;&amp;male;, Bullock Creek, E of Arm idaleon Point Lookout road, 21.ii. 1962, C W. Frazier and A. F. O ’Farrell, I8. <i>xii</i>.l965. A. F. I. O ’Farrell (UNE); two &amp;male;&amp;male;, 38 miles (61 km) E of Armidale. 25.ii.1962, A. F. O ’Farrell (UNE); one &amp;male;, two &amp;female;&amp;female;. Blue Mountains, 7-8 ii.1915, R. J. Tillyard; one <i>&amp;male;,</i> Blackheath, Blue Mountains. 29.xi.1949, R. Dobson; one <i>&amp;male;,</i> Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains, 2 xi.1949, R Dobson; one <i>&amp;male;</i>, French’s Forest, 28.iii. 1948, R. Dobson; four <i>&amp;male;&amp;male;</i>, one &amp;female;, Cronulla, 20.iii. 1957, R. D <i>obson</i>; one <i>&amp;male;</i>, one &amp;female;, Royal National Park, xii.1907, R. J. Tillyard; two &amp;male;&amp;male;, one &amp;female;, Yarrunga (? Creek), 25.i. l915, R. J. Tillyard; one <i>&amp;male;,</i> Ulladulla, 8.ii. 1975, K. R. Norris. Victoria: two &amp;female;&amp;female;, <b>Mount</b> Buffalo, Lake Catani, 4.iii. 1967, E. F. Riek; one <i>&amp;male;</i>, Gisborne, 24.xii.1908, R. J. Tillyard. South Australia: five &amp;male;&amp;male;, Wilpena Pound, no date, H. M. Hale, swamp, 27. <b>x</b>. 1955, E. T. Giles (SAM). <i>Tasmania</i>: two &amp;male;&amp;male;, Cradle <b>M</b> ountain, 19.i.1917, R. J. Tillyard; six <i>&amp;male;&amp;male;</i>, one &amp;female;, Lake Dove, Cradle M ountain, 30.i. l967, E. F. Riek; <i>eight &amp;male;&amp;male;,</i> three &amp;female;&amp;female;, Fossey River, 10 (miles) (16 km) S o f Hellyer Gorge, 5.ii.1967, E. F. Riek; three <i>&amp;male;&amp;male;</i>, two &amp;female;&amp;female;, Nivarre River, 12.ii. 1967, E. F. Riek; one <i>&amp;male;</i>, 5 miles (8 km) SW o f Strahan, 21.i. 1948, K. H. <i>L</i>. Key, <i>P</i>. <b>B</b>. Cam e and R. <i>W</i>. Kerr. <i>Male</i> <i>A. psyche</i> was characterised <i>in</i> detail <i>by</i> Selys (1862) and Ris (1910). <i>Colourpattern</i> (Figs 1,7,13,14).—Dorsal black <i>stripe</i> o fabdominal tergite 2 constricted only slightly at centre (Fig. 13), rarely approaching the goblet-shaped m ark o f <i>A.</i> aleison (but <i>cf.</i> Fig. 14). Colour pattern otherwise much as <i>in A. aleison</i>. <i>Wings</i>.—Hind wing averaging 17.84 <i>mm</i> (range 16.4-18.8 <i>mm</i>, N = 10); fore wing <i>pterostigma</i> averaging 1.444 mm long (range 1.22-1.68 mm), average breadth 0.426 mm (range 0.38-0.48 m m)(N = 10). <i>Anal appendages</i> (Figs 22-24).—Superior appendages <i>averaging</i> 1.273 <i>mm</i> long (range 1.10-1.44 <i>mm</i>, N = 20); subapical <i>spine</i> broad, its anterior margin slightly convex; ventrobasal knob alm ost a third of appendage length from base, 0.68-0.74 x appendage length from tip, 0.36-0.41 x appendage length from point of subapical <i>spine</i>; inferior appendages simple. <i>Female</i> Size variable, range marginally higher than <i>in</i> male; hind <i>wing</i> averaging 18.19 mm long (range 16.9­ 19.2 mm), fore wing pterostigma averaging 1.530 mm (range 1.26-1.74 mm) x 0.454 mm (range 0.42-0.50 mm) (N = 10). Colour pattern as <i>in A. aleison</i> (<i>Fig</i>. 8). <i>Distribution and habitat</i> <i>A. psyche</i> occurs along the coastal and adjacent mountain areas of south-eastern Australia from south-eastern Queensland to Victoria and Tasmania, and in South Australia (Watson 1974,1977), apparently in habitats similar to those occupied by <i>A. aleison</i> in south-western Australia—the margins of rivers and slow streams, lakes and ponds, and probably seasonally dry pools <i>(cf.</i> Watson 1962). The northern parts of its range overlap the range of <i>A. minjerriba,</i> and the two occur in close proximity on North Stradbroke Island and the Wooli Lakes system (Watson and Arthington unpublished report). At least on North Stradbroke Island, <i>A. psyche</i> and <i>A. minjerriba</i> show ecological separation. <i>A. psyche</i> has been recorded from only one locality, the small, reedy, intermittent stream that drains into Brown Lake; <i>A. minjerriba is</i> abundant on the lake, but has not been collected from the stream (Watson and Arthington unpublished report).
description: Published as part of <i>J. A. L. Watson &amp; M. S. Moulds, 1979, New Species of Australian Lestidae (Odonata), pp. 143-155 in Australian Journal of Entomology 18</i> on pages 149-151, DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1979.tb00828.x, http://zenodo.org/record/3699605
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