Species Geotomus alexandria (Distant, 1911)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Moonta alexandria Distant, W.L. 1911. Rhynchotal notes. LIV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 7: 338-354 [338].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Alexandria, NT (as Alexandria, N Australia).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, ground dweller, litter, root-feeder, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Lis, J.A. 1995. A synonymic list of burrower bugs of the Australian Region (Heteroptera: Cydnidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 6(2): 137-149 [145] (list)

Lis, J.A. 1999. Burrower bugs of the Old World - a catalogue (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 10(2): 165-249 [202] (catalogue)

 

History of changes

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