Species Chinessa iniqua Kormilev, 1971

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• Chinessa iniqua Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Mezirinae of the Oriental Region and South Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 26: 1-165 [129].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂, 11 km SE Oerberfaren, Bodem, W New Guinea, 100 m.
  Paratype(s) BPBM 2♂1♀.

Distribution

States

Queensland

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, on bark, sedentary, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with intermediate aged timber, in crevices on bark of fallen logs, in lowland rainforests.

General References

Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Mezirinae of the Oriental Region and South Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 26: 1-165 [129] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement subspecific arrangement: Chinessa iniqua iniqua Kormilev, 1971 and Chinessa iniqua ceramensis Kormilev, 1971)

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 [67, figs 24A,J, 25] (provisional rejection of subspecific arrangement)

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