Species Caecicoris microcerus (Walker, 1873)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crimia microcera Walker, F. 1873. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part VII. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-213. [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Dorey, Irian Jaya (as Dorey, N coast of New Guinea).
• Artabanus inermis Kormilev, N.A. 1955. Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere, IV (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Aradidae from the Oriental and Australian regions. 2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 194-203 [201].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNH ♂, Garove Is., Witu Group (as Deslacs Is.).
  Paratype(s) HNHM ♀ (depository not stated in original description).
• Caecicoris oviventris Kormilev, N.A. 1957. Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere, XI (Hemiptera). On some apterous Mezirinae from New Guinea. Philippine Journal of Science 85: 389-403 [399].

  Type data:

   Holotype HNHM ♀, Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea (as Huon Golf, New Guinea).
• Artabanellus infuscatus Matsuda, R. & Usinger, R.L. 1957. Insects of Micronesia. Heteroptera: Aradidae. Insects of Micronesia 7: 117-172 [141].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, east coast, Palau Is. (as east coast, Peleliu I.).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Monteith, G.B. 1969. A remarkable case of alary dimorphism in the Aradidae (Hemiptera) with generic synonymy and a new species. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 8: 87-94 [87] (synonymy of Caecicoris oviventris)
• Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Mezirinae of the Oriental Region and South Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 26: 1-165 [12] (synonymy of Artabanus inermis)
• 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 [53] (synonymy of Artabanellus infuscatus)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Iron Range.

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, cryptozoic, fungivore, on dead wood, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Wing polymorphism.

General References

Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [120] (catalogue)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1896. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome III. Hétéroptères Tingidae, Phymatidae, Aradidae, Hebridae, Hydrometridae, Henicocephalidae, Reduvidae, Saldidae, Apophilidae, Ceratocombidae, Cimicidae, Anthocoridae. Berlin : R. Friedländer & Fils 275 pp. [47] (catalogue, incertae sedis)

Monteith, G.B. 1982. Biogeography of the New Guinea Aradidae (Heteroptera). pp. 645-657 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea. The Hague & London : W. Junk Vol. 2(4) vii 983 pp. [655] (biogeography)

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 [53, figs 4J, 20G,H, 21] (description)

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