Species Dieuches obscuripes (Walker, 1872)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhyparochromus obscuripes Walker, F. 1872. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-202. [104].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Dore (as Dorey), Irian Jaya.
• Dieuches finitimus Van Duzee, E.P. 1940. New species of Hemiptera collected by the Templeton Crocker Expedition to the Solomon Islands in 1933. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 16: 178-192 [184].

  Type data:

   Holotype CAS 5134 ♂, Kungava Bay, Rennell Is., Solomon Ils.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Eyles, A.C. 1973. Monograph of the Genus Dieuches Dohrn (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Dunedin : The Author & Otago Daily Times Ltd 465 pp. map. [274]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Bamaga, Lockerbie, Torres Strait Ils (Moa Is.).

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

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, open forest, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

 

General References

Cassis, G. 1993. A report on the Heteroptera and Dermaptera from the survey of Cape York Peninsula. pp. 109–123 in, Cape York Peninsula Scientific Expedition Wet Season 1992 Report. Volume 1. Fortitude Valley : The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland vii 295 pp. [113] (distribution, habitat)

Distant, W.L. 1901. Rhynchotal notes. XI. Heteroptera: Fam. Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 464-486, 497-510 [504] (list)

Eyles, A.C. 1973. Monograph of the Genus Dieuches Dohrn (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Dunedin : The Author & Otago Daily Times Ltd 465 pp. map. [274] (description)

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 [432, 436] (description, key)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [220] (catalogue)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1215] (catalogue)

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. [169] (catalogue)

 

History of changes

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