Species Graptostethus cardinalis (Stål, 1866)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lygaeus cardinalis Stål, C. 1866. Analecta hemipterologica. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 10: 151-172 [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♂, N Australia (as Australia borealis).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Brisbane, Bundaberg.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore (associated flora: Mimosa pigra L. [MIMOSACEAE] Sensitive Plant), gregarious, subtropical, terrestrial, volant (host(s): Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) [PHALANGERIDAE] Common Brushtail Possum).

 

General References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. Memoir on a few heteropterous Hemiptera from eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 768-788 pl. xliii [770] (list)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [147] (catalogue)

Malipatil, M.B. 1980. Chromosome variation in the males of some Australian Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 709-715 [710] (chromosome number, 2n=14)

Slater, A. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Lygaeinae of Australia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52: 301-481 [389] (description)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [50] (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. [9] (catalogue)

Stål, C. 1868. Hemiptera Fabriciana. Fabricianska Hemipterarter, efter de i Köpenhamn och Kiel förvarade typexemplaren granskade och beskrifne. 1. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 7(11): 1-148 [75] (list)

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. [61] (list)

Wilson, C.G., Flanagan, G.J. & Gillett, J.D. 1990. The phytophagous insect fauna of the introduced shrub Mimosa pigra in northern Australia and its relevance to biological control. Environmental Entomology 19(3): 776-784, figs 1-4 (host plant)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	PENTATOMOMORPHA	05-Dec-2019	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	LYGAEOIDEA	04-Oct-2019	MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012		05-Dec-2019	MODIFIED
		05-Dec-2019	MODIFIED