Species Mutusca brevicornis (Dallas, 1852)
- Leptocorisa brevicornis Dallas, W.S. 1852. List of the Specimens of Hemipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Taylor & Francis Part 2 369-592 pp. pls XII-XV. [483].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Australia (as New Holland).
Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀.Subsequent designation references:
Ahmad, I. 1965. The Leptocorisinae (Heteroptera: Alydidae) of the world. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Supplement) 5: 1-156 [111].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Cairns, Canungra, Gayndah, Magnetic Is., Mornington Is., Mt Tamborine, Rockhampton,Townsville, Yeppoon, NSW—Broken Hill, Bourke district, Canowindra, Deniliquin, Dorrigo, Galston, Mittagong, Sydney, Tubrabucca, Upper Williams River, Yidda, ACT—Devil's Gorge, VIC—Beaufort, Buln Buln, Hanging Rock, Mt Rosea, Nobel Park, Rosebud, TAS—Launceston, New Norfolk, Russell, Windemere, SA—Aldinga-Sellicks Beach Reserve, Belair, Blackwood, Donovan's Landing, Fulham, Mitcham, Mt Lofty, Mylor, Piccadilly, Upper Sturt, WA—Esperance district, Marble Bar, Warren River, NT—Darwin, Groote Eylandt, Mataranka, Melville Is., Roper River.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Granivore, herbivore (associated flora: Daviesia sp. [FABACEAE]), subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, up-on-plants, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Common on grasses.
General References
Ahmad, I. 1965. The Leptocorisinae (Heteroptera: Alydidae) of the world. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Supplement) 5: 1-156 [111 figs 354-363] (description)
Blöte, H.C. 1934. Catalogue of the Coreidae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Part I, Corizinae, Alydinae. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 17: 253-285 [282] (distribution)
Kumar, R. 1965. Aspects of the morphology of Coreoidea and their value in its higher classification. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 76: 27-91 [30, 43, 47, 66, 80, 86] (morphology)
Schaefer, C.W. & Mitchell, P.L. 1983. Food plants of the Coreoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 76: 591-615 [595] (host plant)
Stål, C. 1866. Analecta hemipterologica. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 10: 151-172 [160] (description)
Stål, C. 1873. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 3. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 11(2): 1-163 [86] (list)
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | PENTATOMOMORPHA | 05-Dec-2019 | MODIFIED | |
| 15-Aug-2012 | 04-Oct-2019 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Dec-2019 | MODIFIED |