Species Hemiodoecus leai China, 1924

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• Hemiodoecus leai China, W.E. 1924. A new genus of Peloridiidae (Hemiptera) from Tasmania. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 60: 199-203 [200].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Hobart, TAS.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 1995. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Coleorrhuncha to Cimicomorpha). pp. 1-501 in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha to Cimicomorpha. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 27.3A xv 506 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

NSW—Brown Mtn, Kosciusko National Park, TAS—Mt Field National Park; also a population in New Zealand, Dunedin (South Island) since 2011 (Wakelin & Larivière 2014).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South East Corner (SEC), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, montane, temperate, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Flightless, associated with Nothofagus cunninghamii (Hook.) Oersted [Fagaceae] and Papillaria kermadecensis (C.Muell.) Jaeg. [Bryophyta].

 

General References

China, W.E. 1927. A sub-brachypterous male of Peloridium hammoniorum Breddin (Heteroptera: Peloridiidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 19: 622-625 [622, 625]

China, W.E. 1932. On the occurrence of the peloridiid genus Hemiodoecus (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) in Queensland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 10: 393-395 (distribution)

China, W.E. 1955. A new genus and species of Peloridiidae (Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha) from South America. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 91: 82-85 [82]

China, W.E. 1962. South American Peloridiidae (Hemiptera-Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 114: 131-161 [134, 135] (relationships)

Drake, C.J. & Salmon, J.T. 1948. A second Xenophyes from New Zealand (Homoptera: Peloridiidae). Dominion Museum Records in Entomology 1: 63-67 [67] (list)

Evans, J.W. 1959. The Peloridiidae of Lord Howe Island (Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha). Records of the Australian Museum 25: 57-62 [57, 60, 61] (relationships)

Evans, J.W. 1967. The biogeographical significance of the Peloridiidae (Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha) and a new species from Lord Howe Island. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 79: 17-24 [19]

Evans, J.W. 1981. A review of present knowledge of the family Peloridiidae and new genera and new species from New Zealand and New Caledonia (Hemiptera: Insecta). Records of the Australian Museum 34: 381-406 [390, fig. 7a] (description, habitus)

Myers, J.G. & China, W.E. 1929. The systematic position of the Peloridiidae as elucidated by a further study of the external anatomy of Hemiodoecus leai China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3: 282-294 (male genitalia)

Pendergrast, J.G. 1962. The internal anatomy of the Peloridiidae (Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 114: 49-65 (internal anatomy)

Wakelin, M.D. & Larivière, M.-C. 2014. First New Zealand record of the Australian species Hemiodoecus leai China, 1924 (Hemiptera: Peloridiidae); a hitchhiker on moss. Zootaxa 3884(1): 95-100

Woodward, T.E. 1952. Two new species of Peloridiidae from New Zealand (Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha) with additional locality records for the family. Records of the Canterbury Museum 6: 181-189 (relationships)

Woodward, T.E., Evans, J.W. & Eastop, V.F. 1970. Hemiptera (Bugs, leafhoppers, etc.). pp. 387-457 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Carlton : Melbourne University Press 1029 pp. [402]

 

History of changes

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