Species Aphelocheirus (Aphelocheirus) australicus Usinger, 1937

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• Aphelocheirus (Aphelocheirus) australicus Usinger, R.L. 1937. A new species of Aphelocheirus from Australia (Hemiptera: Naucoridae). The Australian Zoologist 8: 341-342 [341].

  Type data:

   Holotype CAS ♀, Cairns, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Little Laura River, The Boulders, plus type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, predator.

 

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.

Carver, M., Gross, G.F. & Woodward, T.E. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, etc.) [with contributions by Cassis, G., Evans, J.W., Fletcher, M.J., Hill, L., Lansbury, I., Malipatil, M.B., Monteith, G.B., Moulds, M.S., Polhemus, J.T., Slater, J.A., Štys, P., Taylor, K.L., Weir, T.A. & Williams, D.J.]. pp. 429-509 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp. [488] (note)

Hoberlandt, L. & Štys, P. 1979. Tamopocoris asiaticus gen. and sp. n.—a new aphelocheirine from Vietnam and further studies on Naucoridae (Heteroptera). Sborník Entomologického Oddeleni Národního Musea v Praze 33B: 1-20 [17] (note)

Lansbury, I. 1985. The Australian Naucoridae (Insecta, Hemiptera-Heteroptera) with description of a new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 109: 109-119 [117, figs 62-69] (description)

Polhemus, D.A. & Polhemus, J.T. 1988. The Aphelocheirinae of tropical Asia (Heteroptera: Naucoridae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 36: 167-300 [184, figs 4-8, 162] (description)

Usinger, R.L. 1938. The Naucoridae of the Philippine Islands (Hemiptera). Philippine Journal of Science 64: 299-309 [305] (note)

 

History of changes

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