Species Chinessa bispiniceps (Walker, 1873)
- Crimia bispiniceps Walker, F. 1873. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part VII. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-213. [20].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Dorey, Irian Jaya (as New Guinea).
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 3♂1♀.Subsequent designation references:
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 [63].
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Cairns district, Mt Finnigan, Upper Mulgrave River, West Claudie River.
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, sedentary, terrestrial, tropical, under bark.
Extra Ecological Information
Associated with intermediate aged timber, in crevices under bark of fallen logs, in lowland rainforests.
General References
Kormilev, N.A. 1955. Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere, IV (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Aradidae from the Oriental and Australian regions. 2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 194-203 [201] (female description)
Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Mezirinae of the Oriental Region and South Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 26: 1-165 [118, 122] (key, taxonomy)
Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [124] (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 [62, figs 4G, 24C,F,L,O, 25] (description)
Vásárhelyi, T. 1985. On Chinessa furcella and the genus Melvertes (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica 46: 173-177 [174] (taxonomy)
History of changes
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