Species Arictus tasmani (Kormilev, 1955)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mezira tasmani Kormilev, N.A. 1955. Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere, VI (Hemiptera). Aradidae from the Oriental and Australian regions—IV. Revista Ecuatoriana de Entomologia y Parasitologia 2: 485-508 [492].

  Type data:

   Holotype HNHM ♀, NSW.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Bulburin State Forest, Gatton, Highvale, Maleny, Mt French, Stradbroke Is., Yarraman; NSW—Tweed River.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, fungivore, gregarious, open forest, terrestrial, tropical, under bark, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Under loose bark of Casuarina logs, coexists with Arictus monteithi Kormilev, 1965.

 

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. 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. 1997. Revision of the Australian flat bugs of the subfamily Mezirinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aradidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(1): 1-169 [86, figs 34D,H,O,V, 35] (description)

Usinger, R.L. & Matsuda, R. 1959. Classification of the Aradidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). London : British Museum of Natural History viii 410 pp. [381] (list)

 

History of changes

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