Species Amorbus rhombeus (Westwood, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Physomerus rhombeus Westwood, J.O. 1842. A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. II. London : J.C. Bridgewater 26 pp. [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM Hem. 289 ♂ (label data as "Melville Island"), Australia (as New Holland).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Brisbane, Cairns, Expedition Range, Horn Is., Kuranda, Magnetic Is., Maryborough, Mt Garnet, Mt Tamborine, Palm Is., Torres Strait Ils (Prince of Wales Is.), NSW—Sydney, WA—Goose Hill Creek, Lake Argyle, NT—Daly River, Darwin, Groote Eylandt, Melville Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore, sap-feeder (associated flora: Oryza sativa L. [POACEAE] Rice), subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Feeding on panicles of rice.

 

General References

Blöte, H.C. 1938. Catalogue of the Coreidae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Part IV. Coreinae, third part. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 20: 275-308 [286] (distribution)

Distant, W.L. 1901. Revision of the Rhynchota belonging to the family Coreidae in the Hope Collection at Oxford. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(1): 325-335 pls 29-30 [329] (taxonomy)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [24] (catalogue)

Mayr, G. 1866. Hemiptera. Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wällerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. I. Abtheilung. B. Wien : Karl Gerold's Sohn 1-204 pls I-V. [86] (description)

Stål, C. 1873. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 3. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 11(2): 1-163 [53] (list)

Szent-Ivany, J.J.H. & Catley, A. 1960. Host plant and distribution records of some insects in New Guinea and adjacent islands. Pacific Insects 2: 255-261 [256] (distribution and host plant)

Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-211. [41] (distribution, list)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Jun-2022	COREIDAE	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	PENTATOMOMORPHA	31-May-2022	MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012		16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
		16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED