Species Hebrolethaeus aurantiacus (Distant, 1914)
- Lethaeus aurantiacus Distant, W.L. 1914. Rhynchota from New Caledonia and the surrounding islands. 369-390 pls xi, xii in Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds). Nova Caledonia Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln A. Zoologie. Wiesbaden : C.W. Kreidels Vol. 2. [382].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH sex unknown (possibly lost, see Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 20: 251–285 [258]), Hienghiène, New Caledonia.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Burpengary Creek.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Flightless, granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, litter, nocturnal, rotting leaves, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
General References
Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 2002. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Vol. 27.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiv 737 pp. [343] (first Australian record)
Distant, W.L. 1920. Rhynchota from New Caledonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 6: 143-164 [154] (description)
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 [460] (misidentification as Elasmolomus nereis (Kirkaldy, 1905))
Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 20: 251-285 [258] (type lost)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [863] (catalogue)
History of changes
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