Species Clerada apicicornis Signoret, 1862
- Clerada apicicornis Signoret, V. 1862. Hemiptera. 26-31, 2 colour pls in Maillard, L. (ed.). Notes sur l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Vol. II. Insectes. Paris : Dentu. [28].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, Réunion Is., Mascarene Ils, Indian Ocean. - Gastrodes terminalis Walker, F. 1872. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-202. [122].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Sulawesi (as Celebes).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- White, F.B. 1878. Description of a new species of Heteropterous Hemiptera collected in the Hawaiian Islands by the Rev. T. Blackburn - No. 2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 1: 365-374 [370]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Brisbane, Cairns district, Kuranda, Lever's Plateau, Rathdowney, NSW—Sydney, NT—Darwin; circumtropical.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Sanguinivore, subtropical, synanthropic, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Known to feed on humans, possible vector of Chagas' disease in the Neotropical region.
General References
Distant, W.L. 1918. The Heteroptera of Indo-China. The Entomologist 51: 241-244 [241] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Clerada apicornis)
Harrington, B.J. 1988. Comments on the blood-feeding tribe Cleradini (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Rhyparochrominae) and description of a new genus and species with the legs modified for grasping. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 81: 577-580 [577] (biology)
Illingworth, J.F. 1917. Clerada apicicornis sucking blood (Hemip.). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3: 274 (sanguinivore)
Lent, H. 1939. Sobre o hematofagismo da Clerada apicicornis e outros anthropodos; sua importância na transmissão da doença de Chagas. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro 34: 583-606 (possible Chagas' disease vector)
Malipatil, M.B. 1981. Revision of Australian Cleradini (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 773-819 [775] (revision)
Malipatil, M.B. 1983. Revision of world Cleradini (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), with a cladistic analysis of relationships within the tribe. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 205-225 [224] (checklist)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1032-1034] (catalogue, extensive bibliography)
Stål, C. 1871. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska öarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 27: 607-776 [609, 663]
Sweet, M.H. 1967. The tribal classification of the Rhyparochrominae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 60: 208-226 [210, 213, 215, 217, 219-221] (classification)
History of changes
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