Species Australocoris kurandae (Kirkaldy, 1908)

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Regional Maps

• Germalus kurandae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. Memoir on a few heteropterous Hemiptera from eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 768-788 pl. xliii [774].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂, Kuranda, QLD.
• Scopiastes linearis Distant, W.L. 1918. Contributions to a further knowledge of the Rhynchotal Family Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 2: 173-179, 257-270, 416-424, 486-492 [417].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Kuranda, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 2002. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Vol. 27.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiv 737 pp. [202, 646] (new synonymy)

Generic Combinations

• Australocoris kurandae (Kirkaldy, 1908). —
  Malipatil, M.B. 2012. Australocorinae, a new subfamily of Geocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea) from Australia, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species. Zootaxa 3554: 75–88 [79]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, predator, terrestrial, tropical, up-on-plants, volant.

General References

Scudder, G.G.E. 1963. A revision of the genus Astacops sensu lat. (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Pacific Insects 5: 315-415 [316] (transferred to Geocorinae)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [190, 595] (catalogue, separate species)

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