Species Chiastoplonia pygmaea China, 1930

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• Chiastoplonia pygmaea China, W.E. 1930. Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Part II. Fasc. 3. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 2(3): 81-162 [104].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Pago Pago, Tutuila, Samoa.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Iron Range district.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, cryptozoic, fungivore, lowland, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Found on Hibiscus tiliaceus Linnaeus (Myrtaceae).

 

General References

Esaki, T. & Matsuda, R. 1957. Hemiptera Micronesica, III. Dysodiidae. Mushi 22: 73-86 [80] (distribution)

Kormilev, N.A. 1978. On some Aradidae from the Oriental and Australian regions (Hemiptera). Philippine Journal of Science 105: 235-254 [245] (key)

Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [123] (catalogue)

Monteith, G.B. 1997. Revision of the Australian flat bugs of the subfamily Mezirinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aradidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(1): 1-169 [73, fig. 28] (diagnosis, distribution)

Usinger, R.L. & Matsuda, R. 1959. Classification of the Aradidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). London : British Museum of Natural History viii 410 pp. [294] (list)

 

History of changes

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