Species Diaprepocoris barycephalus Kirkaldy, 1897

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• Diaprepocoris barycephala Kirkaldy, G.W. 1897. Aquatic Rhynchota: descriptions and notes. No. 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 20: 52-60 [53].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Launceston, TAS & Melbourne, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

NSW—Upper Tuross River, VIC—Alexandra, Bridgewater Lake, Lake Purrumbete, Sea Lake, TAS—Bloodstone Lagoon, Cape Portland, Coal River, Lake Ada, Prosser River, SA—Adelaide, Lucindale, near Robe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, detritivore, diurnal, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, volant.

 

General References

Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 2004. Australian Water Bugs. Their Biology and Identification (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha). Entomonographen Denmark : Apollo Books Vol. 14 344 pp.

Hale, H.M. 1922. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera, No. I. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 309-330 [329, fig. 350] (description)

Hale, H.M. 1924. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. IV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 48: 7-9 pl. III [8, figs 1, 5] (description)

Hungerford, H.B. 1948. The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera). Kansas University Science Bulletin 32: 1-827 [44, 45, fig. 11] (habitus)

Hutton, F.W. 1904. Index Faunae Novae Zealandiae. London : Dulau & Co. viii 372 pp. [224] (?New Zealand)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1909. A list of Hemiptera (excluding Sternorrhyncha) of the Maorian Subregion, with notes on a few of the species. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 41: 22-29 [27] (?New Zealand)

Knowles, J.N. 1974. A revision of Australian species of Agraptocorixa Kirkaldy and Diaprepocoris Kirkaldy (Heteroptera: Corixidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 25: 173-191 [173, 185, 186-187, figs 41-48] (description, larvae)

Lansbury, I. 1991. Cuticular blades and other structures of Diaprepocoris Kirkaldy and Stenocorixa Horvath (Heteroptera: Corixidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 134: 35-46 (morphology)

Myers, J.G. & China, W.E. 1928. A list of New Zealand Heteroptera with the description of a remarkable green aradid representing a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 1: 377-394 [387] (not found in New Zealand)

 

History of changes

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