Species Drakiessa tertia Kormilev, 1964
- Drakiessa tertia Kormilev, N.A. 1964. New genera and species of Queensland Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 3: 42-47 [47].
Type data:
Holotype QM T6211 ♀, Lamington National Park, QLD.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Cooran Tableland, Kenilworth State Forest, Lamington National Park, Mt Glorious, Mt Gipps, Springbrook; NSW—Whian Whian State Forest, Wiangaree State Forest.
IBRA
NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), 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, rarely in lowland rainforests, coexists with Drakiessa confusa Kormilev, 1965 and Drakiessa minor Kormilev, 1965.
General References
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 [24] (description of male; distribution)
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 [104, figs 40F, 43A,F, 44G,N,R,C, 45] (description)
History of changes
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