Species Cephaloplatus (Cephaloplatus) pertyi (White, 1842)

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• 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 and IMCRA regions

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

Dallas, W.S. 1851. List of the Specimens of Hemipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Richard Taylor Part 1 368 pp. XI pls. [148] (list)

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)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1909. Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of foodplants and parasites, etc. Prefaced by a discussion on nomenclature, and an analytical table of families. Cimicidae. Berlin : Felix L. Dames Vol. 1 xl 392 pp. [43] (catalogue)

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)

Walker, F. 1867. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-240. [190] (list)

 

History of changes

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