Species Daerlac nigricans Distant, 1918

Museums

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• Daerlac nigricans Distant, W.L. 1918. Contributions to a further knowledge of the Rhynchotal Family Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 2: 173-179, 257-270, 416-424, 486-492 [492].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Sydney, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 20: 251-285 [274].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, temperate, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Cassis, G. & Symonds, C. 2012. Systematic revision and phylogeny of the Australian myrmecomorphic seed bug genus Daerlac Signoret (Insecta: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Udeocorini). Invertebrate Systematics 26(1): 41-66 [54] (revised, distribution)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1058]

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