Species Elasmolomus australis (Distant, 1901)
- Aphanus australis Distant, W.L. 1901. Rhynchotal notes. XI. Heteroptera: Fam. Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 464-486, 497-510 [502].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Troughton Is., WA.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 [258].
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
Granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
General References
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 [457] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as junior synonym of Elasmolomus valbum (Stål))
Scudder, G.G.E. 1970. The world Rhyparochrominae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) X. Further systematic changes. The Canadian Entomologist 102: 98-104 [98] (valid genus, raised from synonymy with Elasmolomus valbum)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1222] (catalogue)
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. [171] (catalogue)
History of changes
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