Species Dieuches scutellatus Distant, 1904
- Dieuches scutellatus Distant, W.L. 1904. Rhynchotal notes. XXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 13: 263-276 [268].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Townsville, QLD.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 [279]. - Dieuches enigmaticus 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 [443].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Marrakai Station, NT.
Paratype(s) ANIC ♂ 2♀.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Almaden, Burketown, Cairns, Cloncurry, Dajarra, Ingham, Paluma Dam, Townsville, SA—Athelstone, Lake Eyre, Lake Surprise, Musgrave Ranges, Petermann Range, Warburton Creek, WA—Cocoa Beach, Flora Valley Station, Gill Pinnacle, McLarty Hills, Monte Bello Ils, Roebuck Bay, Wyndham, NT—Barrow Creek, Darwin, Haast Bluff, Horn Islet, Kapalga, Katherine, Tennant Creek.
IBRA
NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Diurnal, granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
General References
Eyles, A.C. 1973. Monograph of the Genus Dieuches Dohrn (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Dunedin : The Author & Otago Daily Times Ltd 465 pp. map. [349] (description, synonymy)
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, 442-444] (separate species)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1219, 1628] (catalogue, separate species)
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. [170] (catalogue)
History of changes
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