Genus Glochocoris Usinger & Matsuda, 1959

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• Glochocoris Usinger, R.L. & Matsuda, R. 1959. Classification of the Aradidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). London : British Museum of Natural History viii 410 pp. [302].

  Type species:

   Pictinus crassicornis Matsuda & Usinger, 1957 by original designation.
• Mezirella Kiritshenko, A.N. 1959. [New and little-known Brachyrhynchidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 38: 179-195 [In Russian] [186] [first introduced as a subgenus of Mezira Amyot & Serville, 1843].

  Type species:

   Mezira (Mezirella) infantulus Kiritshenko, 1959 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Aradidae in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide II. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 513-550 [513, 533]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Kormilev, N.A. 1960. Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere, XVII (Hemiptera). Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum 13: 163-174 [169] (distribution)

Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Aradidae in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide II. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 513-550 [541] (distribution)

Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Notes on Australian Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with descriptions of new species of Calisius Stål and Glochocoris Usinger and Matsuda. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 79: 71-78 [76] (key)

Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Mezirinae of the Oriental Region and South Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 26: 1-165 [142] (diagnosis)

Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [139] (catalogue)

Monteith, G.B. 1969. A remarkable case of alary dimorphism in the Aradidae (Hemiptera) with generic synonymy and a new species. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 8: 87-94 [92] (habits)

Monteith, G.B. 1997. Revision of the Australian flat bugs of the subfamily Mezirinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aradidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(1): 1-169 [76] (diagnosis)

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