Species Agraptocorixa hirtifrons (Hale, 1922)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corixa (Porocorixa) hirtifrons Hale, H.M. 1922. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera, No. I. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 309-330 [321].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I15186 ♂, Cooper Creek, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♂ ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [179]; Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 1995. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Coleorrhuncha to Cimicomorpha). pp. 1-501 in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha to Cimicomorpha. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 27.3A xv 506 pp. (interpret Knowles' incorrect inference of a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Cunnamulla, Kihee Station, NSW—Broken Hill, VIC—Clear Lake, Hattah Lakes, Lake Boga, SA—Clayton Crossing, Lake Eyre.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Riverina (RIV), Stony Plains (STP)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, detritivore, diurnal, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, 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. 1923. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 397-424 pls X-XI [423] (description)

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 [173-174, 179, figs 17-24] (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 [9] (nov. comb. as Agraptocorixa hirtifrons)

 

History of changes

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