Species Cephaloplatus (Cephaloplatus) darwini Distant, 1910
- Cephaloplatus darwini Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchotal notes. LII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 369-386, 465-481, 585-603 [473].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Darwin, NT (as Port Darwin, N Australia).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Bamaga, Coen, Lockerbie, Stewart River, Torres Strait Ils (Murray Is., Prince of Wales Is., Thursday Is.), Weipa, WA—Derby, Wyndham, NT—Berry Springs, Croker Island, Darwin, Mission, Mt Cahill, Oenpelli, Roper River.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, herbivore, sap-feeder, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
General References
Carpenter, G.H. 1891. Reports on the zoological collections made in Torres Straits by Professor A.C. Haddon, 1888–1889. Rhynchota from Murray Island and Mabuiag. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society 7: 137-146 [139] (misidentification as Cephaloplatus spurcatus Walker, 1867)
Gross, G.F. 1970. A revision of the Australian pentatomid bugs of the genus Cephaloplatus White (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 16: 1-58 [44, fig. 13] (description)
History of changes
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