Species Grossiana persignata (Walker, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Strachia persignata Walker, F. 1867. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 241-417. [347].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay, QLD.
• Strachia coelestis Vollenhoven, S.C.S. van 1868. Diagnoses van eenige niewe soorten van Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Afdeeling Natuurjunde). Amsterdam 2: 172-188 [186].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH (depository uncertain), Australia (as Nova Hollandia).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1876. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 5. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 14(4): 1-162 [86]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Brisbane, Bundaberg, Gayndah, Nanango district, Peak Downs.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, herbivore, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Ahmad, I. & Khan, N.A. 1983. A revision of the genus Stenozygum Fieber (Pentatomidae: Strachini) from the Oriental and Australian Regions, with reference to zoogeography and phylogeny. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 581-605 [581] (note)

Distant, W.L. 1881. Rhynchota from the Australian & Pacific Regions. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1881: 211-218 [213] (synonymy)

Evans, J.W. 1952. The Injurious Insects of the British Commonwealth (except the British Isles, India and Pakistan): with a section on the control of weeds by insects. London : Commonwealth Institute of Entomology vii 42 pp. (pest status)

Froggatt, W.W. 1919. Some plant bugs that infect citrus trees. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 30: 325-330 2 pls [327] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Stenozygym personatum)

Froggatt, W.W. 1923. Forest Insects of Australia. Sydney : Alfred James Kent, Government Printer viii 171 pp. 2 colour pls. [94] (note)

Gross, G.F. 1976. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera. Adelaide : A.B. James Vol. 2 251-501 pp. [423, 425] (taxonomy)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1909. Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of foodplants and parasites, etc. Prefaced by a discussion on nomenclature, and an analytical table of families. Cimicidae. Berlin : Felix L. Dames Vol. 1 xl 392 pp. [105] (catalogue)

Schouteden, H. 1907. Notes on the Pentatomidae (Hemiptera Heteroptera) described by Dr. Snellen van Vollenhoven. Notes from the Leyden Museum 30: 33-46 [41] (description)

Stål, C. 1876. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 5. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 14(4): 1-162 [86] (Stenozygum persignatum)

 

History of changes

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