Species Brentiscerus obscurus (Gross, 1965)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Isopeltus obscurus Gross, G.F. 1965. A revision of the Australian and New Guinea Drymini (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 39-78 pls 3-7 [52].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T6215 ♀, Moggill, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ 3♀ (one ♀ located); QM ♀ (publication does not indicate this deposition); SAMA I20, 154 ♀ 6 larvae.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Cairns, Noosa, Samford.

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), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Granivore, ground dweller, nocturnal, psammophile, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Males unknown.

 

General References

Slater, J.A. 1975. On the biology and zoogeography of Australian Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with special reference to the southwest fauna. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 14: 47-64 [59] (biology)

 

History of changes

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