Species Coptosoma siamica Walker, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Coptosoma siamica Walker, F. 1867. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-240. [89].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Siam.
• Coptosoma concinnula Walker, F. 1867. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-240. [94].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3 specimens, New Guinea; Ternate, Indonesia.
• Coptosoma bellula Walker, F. 1867. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-240. [94].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Sulawesi, Indonesia (as Celebes).
• Coptosoma inclusa Walker, F. 1867. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-240. [95] [junior homonym of Coptosoma inclusum Stål, 1865].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Sulawesi, Indonesia (as Celebes).
• Coptosoma saundersi Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1893. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome I. Hétéroptères Pentatomidae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez xi 286 pp. [9] [nom. nov. for Coptosoma inclusa Walker, 1867].
• Coptosoma pygmaeum Montandon, A.L. 1896. Hémiptères de la s. fam. des Plataspidinae recoltés par M. M. Loria et Modigliani en Océanie et conservés au Musée civique de Gênes. Notes et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 37: 11-125 [120].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH, Sri Lanka (as Ceylon); GMNH, Pulo Penang, Java; NHRM, Calcutta, India.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kirkaldy, G.W. 1909. Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of foodplants and parasites, etc. Prefaced by a discussion on nomenclature, and an analytical table of families. Cimicidae. Berlin : Felix L. Dames Vol. 1 xl 392 pp. [338]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Bentinck Island, Cairns district, Mt Tamborine, Torres Strait Ils (Darnley Is., Moa Is., Murray Is.), NSW—Broken Hill, SA—Arden Vale, NT—Groote Eylandt.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, folivore, herbivore (associated flora: Desmodium novaehollandiae latifolium F.Domin [FABACEAE]; Cajanus indicus Sprengel [FABACEAE]), sap-feeder, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

(as Desmodium novae-hollandiae f. latifolium Domin).

 

General References

Distant, W.L. 1899. Rhynchotal notes—Heteroptera: Plataspinae, Thyreocorinae and Cydninae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 4: 213-227 [215] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonymy with Thyreocoris sphaerula Germar, 1839)

Distant, W.L. 1903. Report on the Rhynchota, Part 1. Heteroptera. pp. 219–272 in, Fasciculi Malayenses: anthropological and zoological results of an expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901–1902 undertaken by Nelson Annandale and Herbert C. Robinson under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Liverpool. Zoology Part I. [225] (subgeneric arrangement)

Distant, W.L. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2(1) x 242 pp. [30] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonymy with Coptosoma orbicula Walker, 1867)

Esaki, T. 1926. Verzeichniss der Hemiptera-Heteroptera der Insel Formosa. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 24: 136-189 [143]

Kumar, R. 1962. Morpho-taxonomical studies on the genitalia and salivary glands of some Pentatomoidea. Entomologisk Tidskrift 83: 44-88 [46, 50 figs] (morphology)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1893. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome I. Hétéroptères Pentatomidae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez xi 286 pp. [6, 7, 9] (catalogue)

 

History of changes

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