Species Cephaloplatus (Melanoplatus) minor Distant, 1910
- Cephaloplatus minor Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchotal notes. LII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 369-386, 465-481, 585-603 [474].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Peak Downs, QLD.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Clermont, Flinders Is., Gin Gin, Gladstone, Mt Carbine, Mutchilba, WA—Derby, NT—Horn Islet.
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
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 [8] (description, as Cephaloplatus (Melanoplatus) minor)
History of changes
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