Genus Dascalina Melichar
Dascalina aegrota Melichar
Dascalina alternans Melichar
Genus Dascalina Melichar 1902: 154
Type
species: Dascalina aegrota Melichar 1902:
155
Distribution: Australia
Species: Four species of Dascalina are known: D. aegrota from N. Qld, D. alternans Melichar (1902: 155) from N. Qld, D. contorta Melichar (1902: 156) from northern Australia and D. vivida Jacobi (1928: 22) from WA.
Note: Medler (1986b: 325) provides illustrations of the lectotype males of D. contorta, D. vivida and D. alternans and points out that the type series of D. aegrota contains females only and may in fact represent the female of either D. contorta or D. alternans. Medler also states that Melichar's (1902: 155) species D. reversa is not a species of Dascalina and queries Melichar's assumption that the locality "Cap" given on the data label is an Australian location. Medler (2001a) has associated Melichar's specimen with forms from southern Africa and has created the genus Sajuba for this and a second species [update: 17.xii.2002]. He interpreted "Cap" as being a South African locality, presumably the Cape (of Good Hope). The species of Dascalina are small, narrow flatids, mottled brown in colour, with the tegmen outwardly prominent near the base and the tegmen apex concavely excavate.