Species Cymodema basicornis (Motschulsky, 1863)

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Species Cymodema basicornis (Motschulsky, 1863)

Cymus basicornis Motschulsky, V. von 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'îIle Ceylan. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3): 1-153 [90].
Type data:
Syntype(s) UZMH (depository uncertain), Colombo, Sri Lanka (as environs de Colombo).
Cymus tabidus Stål, C. 1874. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 4. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 12(1): 1-186 [126].
Type data:
Holotype NHRM ♀, Bengal (as Bengalia).
Cymus nanulus Breddin, G. 1907. Berytiden und Myodochiden von Ceylon aus der Sammelausbeute von Dr. W. Horn (Rhynch. Het.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1907: 34-47, 203-220 [38].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB ♂ (depository uncertain), Negombo, Sri Lanka (as Negombo, Ceylon).
Cymus vulturnus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. Memoir on a few heteropterous Hemiptera from eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 768-788 pl. xliii [770].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM sex unknown, Bundaberg, QLD.
Cymodema gracilior Lindberg, H. 1958. Hemiptera Insularum Caboverdensium. Systematik, Ökologie und Verbreitung der Heteropteren und Cicadinen der kapverdischen Inseln. Commentationes Biologicae Societas Scientiarum Fennicae 19: 5-246 [51].
Type data:
Holotype UZMH ♂, Nicolau Rib., Pulgo, Cape Verde Islands.
Paratype(s) UZMH 7♀.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Bergroth, E. 1917. On the types of the exotic Hemiptera Heteroptera described by V. Motschulsky. Revue Russe d'Entomologie 17: 96-109 [98] (synonymy of Cymus tabidus)
Bergroth, E. 1918. Studies in Philippine Heteroptera, I. Philippine Journal of Science 13: 43-73, 75-126 [65] (synonymy of Cymus vulturnus)
Distant, W.L. 1918. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Homoptera: Appendix, Heteroptera: Appendix). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 7 viii 210 pp. [183] (synonymy of Cymus nanulus)
Hamid, A. 1975. A systematic revision of the Cyminae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) of the world with a discussion of the morphology, biology, phylogeny and zoogeography. Occasional Publications of the Entomological Society of Nigeria 14: 1-179 [57] (synonymy of Cymodema gracilior)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Birdsville, Lawes, Samford, Stanthorpe, NSW—Bourke area, Emu Vale, Nyngan, Wee Jasper, NT—Glen Ormiston.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, granivore (associated flora: Cyperus tenuiflorus Rottb. [CYPERACEAE] Scaly Sedge), subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, up-on-plants, volant.