Species Glochocoris monteithi Kormilev, 1967
- Glochocoris monteithi Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Notes on Australian Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with descriptions of new species of Calisius Stål and Glochocoris Usinger and Matsuda. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 79: 71-78 [77].
Type data:
Holotype QM T6568 ♂, Mt Glorious, QLD.
Paratype(s) QM T29500-29521 22 specimens; EUQ
Comment: 30 paratypes were designated in the original description, aside from the QM paratypes, the depository of the remaining paratypes is uncertain.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Amamoor State Forest, Bald Mountain, Bunya Mountains, Boombana National Park, Eungella National Park, Fraser Is., Lamington National Park, Levers Plateau, Mt Mee State Forest, Mt Superbus, Mt Tamborine, Springbrook; NSW—Bateman's Bay, Bruxner Park, Carrai Plateau, Dorrigo National Park, Ebor, Kiola Forest Park, Mt Allyn, Minnamurra Falls, O'Sullivan Gap Reserve, Tooloom Scrub, Wiangaree State Forest; ACT—Piccadilly Circus.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, cryptozoic, fungivore, gregarious, low closed forest, lowland, montane, open forest, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Mostly in rainforests, also in moist tree fern gullies and wet sclerophyll forests.
General References
Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Aradidae in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide II. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 513-550 [541] (distribution)
Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [140] (catalogue)
Monteith, G.B. 1997. Revision of the Australian flat bugs of the subfamily Mezirinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aradidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(1): 1-169 [78, figs 29C,F, 30] (description)
History of changes
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