Species Austrovelia queenslandica Malipatil & Monteith, 1983
- Austrovelia queenslandica Malipatil, M.B. & Monteith, M.B. 1983. One new genus and four new species of terrestrial Mesoveliidae (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha) from Australia and New Caledonia. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 943-955 [949].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂, 16º08´S 145º26´E, Mt Sorrow summit, Cape Tribulation, QLD.
Paratype(s) ANIC 125♂ 136♀; BMNH; NZAC; NTM; CPOLH; QM 255 specimens (seen by GC); SAMA 4 specimens; ZMUC.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Mt Pieter Botte, Roaring Meg Creek.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, litter, montane, predator, tropical.
Extra Ecological Information
Flightless, larvae unknown.
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. [70, 327] (key; checklist)
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. [482] (note)
Monteith, G.B. 1985. Altitudinal transect studies at Cape Tribulation, North Queensland VII. Coleoptera and Hemiptera (Insecta). Queensland Naturalist 26: 70-80 [71, fig. 2] (habitus, distribution)
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