Species Drakiessa confusa Kormilev, 1965
- Drakiessa confusa Kormilev, N.A. 1965. Notes on Australian Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 77: 11-35 [25].
Type data:
Holotype QM T6328 ♀, Mt Mee Forestry Reserve, QLD.
Paratype(s) QM T29801-29805 5 specimens
Comment: 3♂4♀ paratypes designated, depositories of 2 paratypes unknown.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Cooran Tableland, Jimna State Forest, Mt Glorious, Mt Mee Forestry Reserve.
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)
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, cryptozoic, flightless, fungivore, montane, on dead wood, subtropical, terrestrial.
Extra Ecological Information
Coated with heavy incrustation of soil and debris.
General References
Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [136] (catalogue)
Kumar, R. 1967. Morphology of the reproductive and alimentary systems of the Aradoidea (Hemiptera), with comments on relationships within the superfamily. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 60: 17-25 (internal anatomy)
Monteith, G.B. 1997. Revision of the Australian flat bugs of the subfamily Mezirinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aradidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(1): 1-169 [108, figs 2B, 40J, 43J,L, 44X,B,L,a, 45] (description)
History of changes
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