Species Cymoninus sechellensis (Bergroth, 1893)

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• Ninus sechellensis Bergroth, E. 1893. Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud aux îles Séchelles Hétéroptères. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 12: 197-209 [198, 201].

  Type data:

   Holotype UZMH (depository uncertain), Seychelles.
• Cymoninus subunicolor 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 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype IPK ♂, Weligama, Sri Lanka (as Weligma, Ceylon).
• Ninus subsessilis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. A catalogue of the Hemiptera of Fiji. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 345-391 pl. IV [356].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀ specimens, Rewa, Navua, Suva, Fiji.
• Cymoninus philippinus Bergroth, E. 1918. Studies in Philippine Heteroptera, I. Philippine Journal of Science 13: 43-73, 75-126 [64].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UZMH (depository uncertain), Los Banos, Laguna, Luzon, Philippines.
• Cymoninus occidentalis 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 [50].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Cape Verde Islands.

  Secondary source:

   Slater, J.A. & O'Donnell, J.E. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World (1960–1994). New York : New York Entomological Society xv 410 pp. [42].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Scudder, G.G.E. 1957. A revision of Ninini (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Lygaeidae) including the description of a new species from Angola. Publicaçoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 34: 91-108 [103] (synonymy of Cymoninus subunicolor, Ninus subsessilis and Cymoninus philippinus)
• Scudder, G.G.E. 1968. Air-borne Lygaeidae (Hemiptera) trapped over the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, with the description of a new species of Appolonius Distant. Pacific Insects 10: 155-160 [157] (synonymy of Cymoninus occidentalis)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Bell-Bunya Road, Brisbane, Cairns, Capalaba, Daintree, Dunwich, Imbil, Mooloolaba.

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)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, granivore, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, up-on-plants, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

In seed heads, on native ferns in Fiji.

 

General References

Barber, H.G. 1958. Insects of Micronesia. Heteroptera: Lygaeidae. Insects of Micronesia 7: 173-218 [183, 186] (Cymoninus philippinus)

Distant, W.L. 1909. "Sealark" Rhynchota. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 13: 29-48 [39] (Ninus sechellensis)

Distant, W.L. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 5 xii 362 pp. [15] (description, Ninus subunicolor)

Distant, W.L. 1913. Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 5. No. IX Rhynchota. Part 1. Suborder Heteroptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 16: 139-191 [150] (habitat, Ninus sechellensis)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [158] (catalogue)

Malipatil, M.B. 1977. Immature stages of Ontiscus Stål (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Cyminae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 16: 321-326 [326] (larvae, Cymoninus sechellensis)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1968. Air-borne Lygaeidae (Hemiptera) trapped over the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, with the description of a new species of Appolonius Distant. Pacific Insects 10: 155-160 [157] (Cymoninus sechellensis)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [423-424] (catalogue, Cymoninus sechellensis)

Van Duzee, E.P. 1917. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico, excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. University of California Publications in Entomology. Technical Bulletin 2: xiv 1-902 [163] (catalogue, Cymoninus subunicolor)

 

History of changes

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