Species Brentiscerus australis (Bergroth, 1916)
- Taphropeltus australis Bergroth, E. 1916. New genera and species of Australian Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 29: 1-18 [13].
Type data:
Holotype NMV ♀, VIC.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Babinda, Blackall Ranges, Binna Burra, Cape York, Daintree National Park, Julateen, Lamington National Park, Mt Glorious, Mt Molloy, Mt Tamborine, Rockhampton, Somerset Dam, NSW—Blue Mountains, Dorrigo National Park, Eccleston, Mt Wilson, VIC—Arie Creek, Kawarren, TAS—Cradle Mountain, Hobart, Launceston, Mt Wellington, St Marys, Strahan, SA—Athelstone, Lake Giles National Park, Lucindale, McLaren Flat, Merna Mora, Mitcham, Mt Lofty, Underdale, Whyalla, WA—King George's Sound.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Granivore (associated flora: Eucalyptus regnans F.Muell. [MYRTACEAE] Mountain Ash; Casuarina sp. [CASUARINACEAE] She-Oak; Hypocalymma robustum (Endl.) Lindl. [MYRTACEAE] Swan River Myrtle; Hypocalymma angustifolium (Endl.) Schauer [MYRTACEAE] White Myrtle; Helichrysum diosmifolium Less [ASTERACEAE]; Hypocalymma cordifolium Schauer [MYRTACEAE]; Leucopogon unilateralis Stschegl. [EPACRIDACEAE]; Daviesia divaricata Benth. [FABACEAE]), litter, litter, psammophile, seed litter, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
In sandy areas, in seed litter, ex mosses and lichens, ex leaf debris amongst grasses and Eucalyptus, associated with rhyparochromids: Coleocoris ocellatus Gross, 1958, Euander lacertosus (Erichson, 1842), Plinthisus sp., Udeocoris nigroaeneus (Erichson, 1842).
General References
Bergroth, E. 1916. Neue Myodochidae (Hem. Het.). Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 35: 215-221 [220] (note)
Scudder, G.G.E. 1962. The world Rhyparochrominae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). II. New genera for previously described species. The Canadian Entomologist 94: 981-989 [985, 989] (separate species, nov. comb. as Brentiscerus putoni and Brentiscerus australis)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [983] (catalogue)
Slater, J.A. 1975. On the biology and zoogeography of Australian Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with special reference to the southwest fauna. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 14: 47-64 [59, 60, 62, 63] (wing polymorphism, host)
Slater, J.A. 1976. The biology, distribution and taxonomy of some Lygaeidae of Southwest Australia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 129-151 [148] (biology, distribution)
Slater, J.A. 1976. The immature stages of Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of southwest Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 101-126 [103, 123, 124] (key, larvae)
Slater, J.A. & O'Donnell, J.E. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World (1960–1994). New York : New York Entomological Society xv 410 pp. [114] (catalogue)
White, T.C.R. 1974. Semi-quantitative sampling of terrestrial arthropods occurring in the air over South Australia. Pacific Insects 16: 1-10 [6] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as junior synonym of Brentiscerus putoni (White, 1878) , New Zealand species)
Woodward, T.E. 1977. The occurrence in Australia of Lachnophoroides Distant (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) with descriptions of two new species. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 16: 63-71 [69] (diagnosis)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 17-Nov-2022 | RHYPAROCHROMIDAE | 17-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 10-May-2022 | RHYPAROCHROMIDAE | 13-Oct-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Dec-2019 | PENTATOMOMORPHA | 17-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Dec-2019 | LYGAEOIDEA | 17-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 15-Aug-2012 | 17-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | ||
| 17-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED |