Species Iphicrates spathus Slater, 1961
- Iphicrates spathus Slater, J.A. 1961. A revision of the genus Iphicrates (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Pacific Insects 3: 507-521 [514].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♂, Launceston, TAS.
Paratype(s) SAMA 11♂ 24♀; CSLAT 3♂9♀.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Bunya Mountains, Emu Vale, Mt Glorious, Mt Isa, Mt Tamborine, Rathdowney, SA—Melrose, Mt Remarkable, NT—Daly River.
IBRA
NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Herbivore, laminaphiles, sap-feeder, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical.
Extra Ecological Information
In tussocks.
General References
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [470] (catalogue)
Slater, J.A. 1979. The systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the Blissinae of the world. (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 165: 1-180 [52, 61, 101, 102] (morphology, list, species key)
Slater, J.A. & Ahmad, I. 1964. The genus Rhabdomorphus Bergroth and related Australian genera of Blissinae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 75: 19-27 [26] (distribution)
History of changes
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