Species Arictus monteithi Kormilev, 1965
- Arictus monteithi Kormilev, N.A. 1965. Notes on Australian Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 77: 11-35 [32].
Type data:
Holotype QM T6324 ♂, Dunwich, Stradbroke Is., QLD.
Paratype(s) QM T26339-26357 19 specimens; AMNH; EUQ
Comment: 24 paratypes designated, aside from QM paratypes, depository of others uncertain.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Acacia Range, Bamaga, Ban Ban Ranges, Blackdown Tableland, Bowen, Bundaberg, Cannonvale, Carnarvon Gorge, Cooloola National Park, Fraser Is., Gayndah, Greta Creek, Iron Range, Kirrama State Forest, Kuranda, Lockerbie, Mackay, Magnetic Island, Prosperpine, Redlynch, Silver Plains, Springvale, Stanthorpe, Torres Strait Ils (Badu Is., Moa Is., Prince of Wales Is.), Townsville, Upper Lankelly Creek, Weipa; NSW—Brewarrina, Brooklana, Dorrigo, near Landsdowne, Raymond Terrace, Tooloom Plateau; NT—Bathurst Is., Darwin, Fogg Dam, Groote Island, Horn Islet, Howard Rivers, Humpty Doo.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Cryptozoic, fungivore, gregarious, open forest, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, under bark, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Coexists with Arictus tasmani Kormilev, 1955, under a wide variety of log types.
General References
Kormilev, N.A. 1965. Notes on Aradidae in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 2 18: 1-8 [5] (distribution)
Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Some Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Philippine, Bismarck and Solomon Islands. Entomologiske Meddelelser 35: 291-300 [299] (note)
Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Mezirinae of the Oriental Region and South Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 26: 1-165 [107] (key)
Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [105] (catalogue)
Kumar, R. 1967. Morphology of the reproductive and alimentary systems of the Aradoidea (Hemiptera), with comments on relationships within the superfamily. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 60: 17-25 (internal anatomy)
Monteith, G.B. 1968. Notes on Aradidae from Fraser Island. Queensland Naturalist 19: 46 [46] (distribution)
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 [85, figs 2C, 4I, 5N, 34B,I,L,Q,T, 35] (description)
History of changes
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