Species Cephaloplatus (Cephaloplatus) spurcatus Walker, 1867
- Cephaloplatus spurcatus 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. [191].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, N Australia.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Almaden, Ayr, Brisbane, Carnarvon, Charters Towers, Clermont, Doomadgee Mission, Gayndah, Highvale, Maryborough, Mt Elliot, Mt Etna, Normanton, Toowong, Townsville, NT—Borroloola, Huckitta, Moly Hill.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, arid, 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 darwini Distant, 1910)
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 [40, fig. 12] (description)
Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1893. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome I. Hétéroptères Pentatomidae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez xi 286 pp. [113] (catalogue)
History of changes
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