Species Dentisblissus corniger Slater, 1968

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• Dentisblissus corniger Slater, J.A. 1968. A contribution to the systematics of Oriental and Australian Blissinae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Pacific Insects 10: 275-294 [289].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♂, Somerset, QLD.
  Paratype(s) CSLAT ♀.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, herbivore, laminaphiles, sap-feeder, terrestrial, tropical.

General References

Slater, J.A. 1979. The systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the Blissinae of the world. (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 165: 1-180 [50, 85] (list, species key)

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. [48] (catalogue)

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