Subspecies Artabanus bilobiceps australis Kormilev, 1958
- Artabanus australis Kormilev, N.A. 1958. Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere, XV (Hemiptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 66: 87-97 [91].
Type data:
Holotype MNH ♀, QLD. - Brachyrhynchus bilobiceps papuasicus Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Aradidae in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide II. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 513-550 [527].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA I20357 ♂, Mt Lamington, 1300–1500 ft, Papua New Guinea (as Mt Lamington, NE Papua, New Guinea).
Paratype(s) SAMA I20358–I20360 3♀.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [51, figs 4E, 5I, 6A,B, 7C, 16M, 20C-F, 21] (description)
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Cooktown, Daintree River, Flying Fish River, Iron Range, Mossman Gorge, Shipton's Flat, Upper Mulgrave River.
IBRA
Qld: 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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, cryptozoic, fungivore, on dead wood, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
General References
Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Mezirinae of the Oriental Region and South Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 26: 1-165 [14, 22] (key, distribution)
Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [107] (catalogue)
History of changes
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