Species Isodermus planus Erichson, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Isodermus planus Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [282].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMB ♂, TAS (as Vandiemensland).
  Paralectotype(s) CHEISS 1♂; ZMB 4♀; ZMB 4♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Heiss, E. 1982. On Isodermus planus Erichson, 1842, and a new species from Tasmania (Heteroptera, Aradidae). Entomofauna 2: 247-262 [248].
• Isodermus vacillans Walker, F. 1873. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part VII. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-213. [42].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Usinger, R.L. & Matsuda, R. 1959. Classification of the Aradidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). London : British Museum of Natural History viii 410 pp. [59]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

VIC—Beaconsfield, Mt Baw Baw, Mt Buffalo, SA—Avenue Range, Bridgewater, Cleland Conservation Park, Kangaroo Is., Meningie, Penola, TAS—Marrawah.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, fungivore, temperate, terrestrial, under bark, volant.

 

General References

Heiss, E. 1982. On Isodermus planus Erichson, 1842, and a new species from Tasmania (Heteroptera, Aradidae). Entomofauna 2: 247-262 [256] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Isodermus vacillans as possible valid species and nov. comb. as Prosympiestus vacillans)

Kormilev, N.A. 1965. Notes on Aradidae in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 2 18: 1-8 [1] (distribution, diagnosis)

Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [94] (catalogue)

 

History of changes

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