Species Dieuches curvus Eyles, 1973
- Dieuches curvus Eyles, A.C. 1973. Monograph of the Genus Dieuches Dohrn (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Dunedin : The Author & Otago Daily Times Ltd 465 pp. map. [141].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♂, Normanton, QLD.
Paratype(s) BMNH; NZAC; UBC; SAMA ♀
Comment: 119♂ 113♀ paratypes designated.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Bentinck Is., Cape York Peninsula, Coen, Mackay, Mt Isa, Torres Strait Ils (Prince of Wales Is.), SA—Cannuwaukaninna Bore, NT—Barrow Creek, Coomalie Creek, Darwin, Horn Islet, Katherine, Mt Brockman.
IBRA
NT, Qld, SA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Diurnal, granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
General References
Gross, G.F. & Scudder, G.G.E. 1963. The Australian Rhyparochromini (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 427-469 pls 19-24 [437] (misidentification as part of Dieuches oceanicus Distant, 1901)
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. [167] (catalogue)
History of changes
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