Species Arocatus aenescens Stål, 1874
- Arocatus aenescens Stål, C. 1874. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 4. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 12(1): 1-186 [115].
Type data:
Holotype NHRM ♀, Australia. - Scopiastes bergrothi Kirkaldy, G.W. 1903. Einige neue und wenig bekannte Rhynchoten. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 22: 13-17 [16].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM sex unknown, Brisbane, QLD.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Notes on Hemiptera. The Canadian Entomologist 39: 410-411 [410]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Rockhampton, NSW—Dorrigo, Stanwell Park.
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)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Aposematic, arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, granivore (associated flora: Parsonsia straminea (R.Br.) F.Muell. [APOCYNACEAE] Common Silkpod; Gomphocarpus sp. [ASCLEPIADACEAE]), gregarious, gregarious, low closed forest, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, under bark, volant.
General References
Scudder, G.G.E. 1963. A revision of the genus Astacops sensu lat. (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Pacific Insects 5: 315-415 [316] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement rev. stat. and nov. comb. as Arocatus bergrothi)
Slater, A. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Lygaeinae of Australia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52: 301-481 [319, figs] (description, habitus, revised synonymy of Scopiastes bergrothi)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [19] (catalogue)
History of changes
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05-Dec-2019 | PENTATOMOMORPHA | 05-Dec-2019 | MODIFIED | |
05-Dec-2019 | LYGAEOIDEA | 04-Oct-2019 | MODIFIED | |
15-Aug-2012 | 05-Dec-2019 | MODIFIED | ||
05-Dec-2019 | MODIFIED |