Species Elasmolomus v-album (Stål, 1860)
- Rhyparochromus v-album Stål, C. 1860. Hemiptera. Species novas descripsit. pp. 219–298 in, Konglika Svenska Fregattens Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden, under Befal af C.A. Virgin åren 1851–1853. III Zoologi, Insekter. Stockholm : Norstedt. [247] [first introduced as Rhyparochromus v-album].
Type data:
Holotype NHRM ♀, Manilla, Philippines (as Manilla, Insulae Philippinenses). - Pachymerus nereis 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 [347].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM ♀, Lifu, New Caledonia. - Elasmolomus insularis 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 [360].
Type data:
Holotype BPBM sex unknown, Rewa, Fiji.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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] (synonymy of Elasmolomus insularis)
- Scudder, G.G.E. 1970. The world Rhyparochrominae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) X. Further systematic changes. The Canadian Entomologist 102: 98-104 [99] (synonymy of Pachymerus nereis)
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Atherton, Bloomfield River, Claudie River, Dunk Is., Iron Range, NT—Daly River, Horn Islet.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, open forest, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
General References
Barber, H.G. 1958. Insects of Micronesia. Heteroptera: Lygaeidae. Insects of Micronesia 7: 173-218 [215] (description, Micronesia)
Breddin, G. 1907. Berytiden und Myodochiden von Ceylon aus der Sammelausbeute von Dr. W. Horn (Rhynch. Het.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1907: 34-47, 203-220 [207] (Sri Lanka)
Cassis, G. 1993. A report on the Heteroptera and Dermaptera from the survey of Cape York Peninsula. pp. 109–123 in, Cape York Peninsula Scientific Expedition Wet Season 1992 Report. Volume 1. Fortitude Valley : The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland vii 295 pp. [113] (distribution, habitat)
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 [138] (Samoa, as Aphanus (Elasmolomus) v-album)
Distant, W.L. 1913. Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 5. No. IX Rhynchota. Part 1. Suborder Heteroptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 16: 139-191 [154] (distribution, Pacific basin)
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, 459] (description, separate species)
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 Aphanus australis Distant, 1902 as junior synonym)
Scudder, G.G.E. & Eyles, A.C. 1968. A new species of Elasmolomus (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) from Australia. New Zealand Journal of Science 11: 618-622 [618] (note)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1223, 1227] (catalogue, separate species)
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. [172] (catalogue)
History of changes
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