Subspecies Dysdercus (Paradysdercus) sidae sidae Montrouzier, 1861

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dysdercus sidae Montrouzier, X. 1861. Essai sur la faune entomologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Balade) et des îles des Pins, Art, Lifu, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 1: 59-74 [68].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Lifu, New Caledonia (as Nouvélle-Caledonié).
• Dysdercus insularis Stål, C. 1870. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 1. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 9(1): 1-232 [120].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀, Fiji (as Insulae Fidschi).
• Dysdercus rubriscutellatus Breddin, G. 1901. Neue Lygaeiden & Pyrrhocoriden der Malayische-australischen Region. Societas Entomologica. Stuttgart 16: 10-12 [11].

  Type data:

   Holotype DEIB (depository uncertain), Halmahera, Maluka (as Halmahera, Molucca).
• Dysdercus remotus Distant, W.L. 1914. Rhynchota from New Caledonia and the surrounding islands. 369-390 pls xi, xii in Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds). Nova Caledonia Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln A. Zoologie. Wiesbaden : C.W. Kreidels Vol. 2. [383].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Maré Is., La Roche Is., Médon Is., Loyalty Is.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [411]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Rockhampton, Biloela, Torres Strait Ils (Thursday Is.), NSW—Richmond River, NT—Bathurst Is., Darwin, Port Essington.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, herbivore (associated flora: Gossypium hirsutum L. [MALVACEAE] Cotton; Brachychiton acerifolius Macarthur & C.Moore [STERCULIACEAE] Illawarra Flame Tree; Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. [MALVACEAE] Kapok; Brachychiton rupestris (T.L.Mitch. ex Lindl.) K.Schum. [MALVACEAE] Queensland Bottletree; Geijera parviflora Lindl. [RUTACEAE] Wilga; Abutilon oxycarpum (F.Muell.) Benth. [MALVACEAE]; Malva sp. [MALVACEAE]; Melhania incana Wight & Arn. [STERCULIACEAE]; Sida rhombifolia retusa (L.) Borss.Waalk. [MALVACEAE]; Sterculia sp. [STERCULIACEAE]; Sida subspicata Benth. [MALVACEAE]; Sida corrugata Lindley [MALVACEAE]; Malvastrum spicatum (L.) A.Gray [MALVACEAE]; Alternanthera amoena Voss [AMARANTHACEAE]; Brachychiton diversifolius R.Br. [STERCULIACEAE]; Alternanthera ficoidea (L.) Romer & Schultes [AMARANTHACEAE]), omnivore, predator (host(s): Earias huegeliana Gaede, 1937 [NOCTUIDAE]), terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Feeding on pupae of Earias huegeli Rogenhofer [Lepidoptera: Noctuidae].

 

General References

Ballard, E. 1925. Fourth entomological progress report (Australia). Empire Cotton Growers Review 2: 341-347

Ballard, E. 1925. Some of the causes of low-grade cotton. Queensland Agricultural Journal 23: 542-545

Ballard, E. 1926. Cotton stainers. Queensland Agricultural Journal 25: 53-55

Ballard, E. 1926. Sixth entomological progress report (Australia) season 1925–26 continued. Empire Cotton Growers Review 3: 365-73

Ballard, E. 1927. Cotton growing in Queensland. Part II. Pests of Cotton in Queensland. A Bulletin for farmers giving an account of the insect pests of cotton and their habits, and some measures for controlling them. Queensland Agricultural Journal 28: 589-614 [604, 607-609 pl. 4] (biology, host plants, control)

Ballard, E. 1927. Entomological problems of Queensland cotton growing. Empire Cotton Growers Review 4: 196-205

Ballard, E. & Evans, M.G. 1928. Dysdercus sidae, Montr., in Queensland. Bulletin of Entomological Research 18: 405-432 pl. XIX (pest, biology)

Ballard, E. & Holdaway, F.G. 1926. The life-history of Tectocoris lineola, F., and its connection with internal boll rots in Queensland. Bulletin of Entomological Research 16: 329-346 pls XV-XVI

Bergroth, E. 1913. Supplementum Catalogi Heteropterorum Bruxellensis II. Coreidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Colobathristidae, Neididae. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22: 125-183 [173]

Bergroth, E. 1914. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute; Hemiptera Heteroptera I. Aradidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Myodochidae, Tingidae, Reduviidae, Ochtheridae. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 3: 353-364 [355] (misidentification as Dysdercus cingulatus (Fabricius, 1775))

Blöte, H.C. 1931. Catalogue of the Pyrrhocoridae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 14: 97-136 [130, 132] (includes misidentification as Dysdercus concinnulus Walker, 1872)

China, W.E. 1930. Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Part II. Fasc. 3. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 2(3): 81-162 [140]

Distant, W.L. 1914. Rhynchota from New Caledonia and the surrounding islands. 369-390 pls xi, xii in Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds). Nova Caledonia Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln A. Zoologie. Wiesbaden : C.W. Kreidels Vol. 2. [383 pl. 11 fig. 6] (description)

Distant, W.L. 1920. Rhynchota from New Caledonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 6: 143-164 [155]

Evans, J.W. 1952. The Injurious Insects of the British Commonwealth (except the British Isles, India and Pakistan): with a section on the control of weeds by insects. London : Commonwealth Institute of Entomology vii 42 pp.

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 [411 figs 11, 12, 54] (description)

Froggatt, W.W. 1901. Notes on Australian Hemiptera (plant Bugs). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 12: 1592-1601 1 colour pl. [1600 pl. fig. 2] (description)

Froggatt, W.W. 1905. The insects of the kurrajong. (Brachychiton populneum). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 16: 226-234 2 pls [231]

Froggatt, W.W. 1923. Insect pests of the cultivated cotton plant. No. 3.—Cotton stainers and other plant bugs. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 34: 209-212 [211]

Hely, P.C., Pasfield, G. & Gellatley, J.G. 1982. Insect Pests of Fruit and Vegetables in NSW. Melbourne : Inkata Press 312 pp. [124, 165] (bionomics)

Hopkins, G.H.E. 1927. Pests of economic plants in Samoa and other island groups. Bulletin of Entomological Research 18: 23-32 pl. II (pest, Samoa)

Hori, K. 2000. Possible causes of disease symptoms resulting from the feeding of phytophagous Heteroptera. pp. 11-35 in Schaefer, C.W. & Panizzi, A.R. (eds). Heteroptera of Economic Importance. Boca Raton : CRC Press 828 pp. [15, Tab. 1] (physiology)

Hussey, R.F. 1929. Pyrrhocoridae. Fascicle III. pp. 1–144 in, General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Northampton : Smith College. [92, 100]

Jarvis, E. 1919. Insect pests of the rosella. The rosella flea-beetle. Queensland Agricultural Journal 9: 69-74 [39, 81 figs 3-9] (description)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1905. Memoir on the Rhynchota collected by Dr. Arthur Willey, F.R.S., chiefly in Birara (New Britain) and Lifu. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1905: 327-363, pl. 17 [345, 348]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. A catalogue of the Hemiptera of Fiji. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 345-391 pl. IV [354]

Kirkaldy, G.W. & Edwards, S. 1902. Anmerkungen über bemerkenswerte Pyrrhocorinen (Rynchota). Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 21(7): 161-172 [171] (misidentification as Dysdercus cingulatus (Fabricius, 1775))

Lever, R.J.A.W. 1937. Economic insects and biological control in the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of Entomological Research 28: 325-331

McKeown, K.C. 1942. Australian insects. The bugs—order Hemiptera-Heteroptera, I. Australian Museum Magazine 8: 27-31 [28]

Musgrave, A. 1954. The insects of Captain Cook's Expedition. Pt II. Australian Museum Magazine 11: 265-269

Schaefer, C.W. & Ahmad, I. 2000. Cotton Stainers and their Relatives (Pyrrhocoroidea: Pyrrhocoridae and Largidae). pp. 271-307 in Schaefer, C.W. & Panizzi, A.R. (eds). Heteroptera of Economic Importance. Boca Raton : CRC Press 828 pp. [286] (bionomics)

Schmidt, E. 1932. Zur Kenntnis der Familie Pyrrhocoridae Fieber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Teil II. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 49: 236-281, 328 [261] (in part, misidentification as Dysdercus cingulatus)

Schouteden, H. 1907. Les types d'Hémiptères de Montrouzier. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 106-118 [115]

Schouteden, H. 1933. Résultats scientifiques de voyage aux Indes Orientales Néelandaises de LL. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Léopold de Belgique. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 8 4: 41-70 [63]

Simmonds, H.W. 1922. Insect affecting cotton in Fiji. Agricultural Circular of the Department of Agriculture, Fiji 3: 36-38

Simmonds, H.W. 1928. Stained cotton in Fiji and its causes. Agricultural Journal of the Department of Agriculture Fiji 1: 10-12

Stål, C. 1870. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 1. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 9(1): 1-232 [120] (list)

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 [256-258 figs]

Synave, H. 1967. Liste du matériel typique conservé dans les collections entomologiques de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Hemiptera—1–8—Nepidae, Belostomatidae, Notonectidae, Mesoveliidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Miridae et Tingidae. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 43: 1-27 [15-16]

Szent-Ivany, J.J.H. 1959. Host plant and distribution records of some insects in New Guinea. Pacific Insects 1: 423-429 [425] (host plants, Papua New Guinea)

Szent-Ivany, J.J.H. & Catley, A. 1960. Host plant and distribution records of some insects in New Guinea and adjacent islands. Pacific Insects 2: 255-261 [256]

Tryon, H. 1919. Report of the entomologist and vegetable pathologist. Report of the Department of Agriculture, Queensland 1918–1919: 37-49 (pest)

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. [188] (list)

 

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