Species Dysdercus (Megadysdercus) argillaceus Breddin, 1895
- Dysdercus argillaceus Bergroth, E. 1895. Contributions to a knowledge of the Rhynchota of Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 7: 287-302 [293].
Type data:
Holotype NMV ♀, Queensland. - Dysdercus sordidulus Breddin, G. 1901. Neue Lygaeiden & Pyrrhocoriden der Malayische-australischen Region. Societas Entomologica. Stuttgart 16: 10-12 [12].
Type data:
Holotype DEIB sex unknown (depository uncertain), Queensland.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Bergroth, E. 1913. Supplementum Catalogi Heteropterorum Bruxellensis II. Coreidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Colobathristidae, Neididae. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22: 125-183 [172]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Torres Strait Ils (Cornwallis Is.).
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
Arboreal, diurnal, herbivore, terrestrial, volant.
General References
Breddin, G. 1901. Neue Lygaeiden & Pyrrhocoriden der Malayische-australischen Region. Societas Entomologica. Stuttgart 16: 10-12 [91] (description)
Freeman, P. 1947. A revision of the genus Dysdercus Boisduval (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae), excluding the American species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 98: 373-424 [414] (description, synonymy, Melanesia)
Hussey, R.F. 1929. Pyrrhocoridae. Fascicle III. pp. 1–144 in, General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Northampton : Smith College. [86] (catalogue, synonymy)
Stehlik, J.L. 1965. Pyrrhocoridae and Largidae collected by E.S. Brown on Solomon Islands (Heteroptera). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 50: 253-291 pls I-VIII [265] (subgeneric combination as Dysdercus (Megadysdercus) argillaceus)
History of changes
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