Species Agraptocorixa eurynome (Kirkaldy, 1897)

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• Corixa eurynome Kirkaldy, G.W. 1897. Aquatic Rhynchota: descriptions and notes. No. 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 20: 52-60 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Adelaide, SA.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Townsville, NSW—Clarence River, Mittagong, VIC—Mallee, Plenty River, SA—Adelaide, Blakiston, Bordertown, Murray River, also Melanesia—Indonesia (Irian Jaya).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, detritivore, diurnal, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, predator, volant.

 

General References

Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 2004. Australian Water Bugs. Their Biology and Identification (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha). Entomonographen Denmark : Apollo Books Vol. 14 344 pp.

Hale, H.M. 1922. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera, No. I. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 309-330 [318] (as Corixa (Paracorixa) eurynome)

Hungerford, H.B. 1934. Concerning some aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera from Australia. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 29: 68-73 [70] (list)

Hungerford, H.B. 1948. The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera). Kansas University Science Bulletin 32: 1-827 [pl. iv fig. 12] (habitus)

Jansson, A. 1982. Notes on some Corixidae (Heteroptera) from New Guinea and New Caledonia. Pacific Insects 24: 95-103 [98] (Irian Jaya)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1899. Aquatic Rhynchota in the collection of the Royal Museum of Belgium. Notes and descriptions. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 43: 505-510 [510] (list)

Knowles, J.N. 1974. A revision of Australian species of Agraptocorixa Kirkaldy and Diaprepocoris Kirkaldy (Heteroptera: Corixidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 25: 173-191 [173-177, figs 1-8] (description)

Lansbury, I. 1984. Some Nepomorpha (Corixidae, Notonectidae and Nepidae) (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) of north-west Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 35-49 [37] (note)

Lundblad, O. 1929. Die australischen Arten der Gattung Agraptocorixa. Arkiv för Zoologi 20: 1-19 2 pls [3] (nov. comb. as Agraptocorixa eurynome)

 

History of changes

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