Species Cephaloplatus (Cephaloplatus) pertyi (White, 1842)
- Dryptocephalus (Cephaloplatus) pertyi White, A. 1842. Description of Hemipterous insects of the section Heteroptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3: 84-94 [90].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, unknown locality (incorrect original type locality as Brasilia).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Bamaga, Bluff, Bowen, Breakfast Creek, Capella, Charters Towers, Coen, Eidsvold, McIlwraith, Mutchilba, Rockhampton, Torres Strait Ils (Prince of Wales Is.), WA—Broome, Derby, Roebuck Bay, Wyndham, NT—Adelaide River, Borroloola, Daly River, Darwin, Finke River, Katherine, Marrakai Station, Roper River.
IBRA
NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), 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), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, arid, herbivore, sap-feeder, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
General References
Distant, W.L. 1899. Rhynchotal notes. III. Heteroptera: Discocephalinae and Pentatominae (part). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 4: 421-445 [433] (note)
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 [48, fig. 14] (description)
Gross, G.F. 1976. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera. Adelaide : A.B. James Vol. 2 251-501 pp. [404, fig. 178] (description)
Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1893. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome I. Hétéroptères Pentatomidae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez xi 286 pp. [113] (catalogue)
Stål, C. 1876. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 5. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 14(4): 1-162 [71] (list, incorrect subsequent spelling as Cephaloplatys pertyi)
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