Major Group: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Family: Synthemistidae
Genus: Tonyosynthemis |
Descriptive Features: frontal plate wide and rather short, set with very short scale-like structures along margins, posterior margin only slightly convex
prementum abruptly widening from rather narrow base
6 pairs of primary and 5-6 pairs of secondary premental setae
premental ligula with median lobe hardly developed
labial palps, with 7 rather small dentations
6 palpal setae
prominent fringe of flat and distally markedly widened setal structures along posterior eye margin
postocular lobes strongly differentiated, almost bilobed
pronotal lobes with short, appressed and longer, apically widened and flattened, dorsally directed setal structures
abdominal terga 4-9 each with 2 substantial, obtuse, laterodorsal processes bearing short setae
Total length: 17 - 20 mm |
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Tonyosynthemis ofarrelli |
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Taxonomic Checklist: Species
Tonyosynthemis claviculata (Tillyard, 1909)
Tonyosynthemis ofarrelli (Theischinger & Watson, 1986) |
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Distribution: T. claviculata - NE Qld
T. ofarrelli - SE Qld, NE NSW
Functional Feeding Group: predators |
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Information Sources: Theischinger 2001, Theischinger & Hawking 2006
Key to Species: Theischinger 2001, Theischinger & Endersby 2009 |
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