Species Macropes australis (Distant, 1901)
- Ischnodemus australis Distant, W.L. 1901. Rhynchotal notes. XI. Heteroptera: Fam. Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 464-486, 497-510 [468].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Darwin, NT (as Port Darwin, Australia).
Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀.Subsequent designation references:
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 [23]. - Rhabdomorphus longurio Bergroth, E. 1918. Studies in Philippine Heteroptera, I. Philippine Journal of Science 13: 43-73, 75-126 [69].
Type data:
Lectotype USNM ♀, Baguio Benguet, Luzon, Philippines.
Paralectotype(s) USNM; UZMH.Subsequent designation references:
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 [23].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [23]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Bluff, Brisbane, Bulburin State Forest, Cape River, Deception Bay, Ipswich, Lamington National Park, Mooloolaba, Rockhampton, NSW—Sydney, NT—Coniston Station, Daly River.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Herbivore, laminaphiles, sap-feeder, terrestrial.
Extra Ecological Information
Ex grass.
General References
Hoffmann, W.E. 1932. The economic status of the lygaeids and notes on the life history of Lygaeus hospes Fabr. and Aphanus sordidus Fabr. (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Lingnan Science Journal 11: 119-135 [126] (Rhabdomorphus longurio)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [474] (catalogue; as Ischnodemus australis)
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 [15, 55, 62, 136, 137, 138, fig. 58] (morphology, list, species key)
Slater, J.A., Ashlock, P.D. & Wilcox, D.B. 1969. The Blissinae of Thailand and Indochina (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Pacific Insects 11: 671-733 [698] (distribution)
History of changes
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