Species Melanacanthus scutellaris (Dallas, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alydus scutellaris Dallas, W.S. 1852. List of the Specimens of Hemipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Taylor & Francis Part 2 369-592 pp. pls XII-XV. [474].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Swan River, WA; Australia (as New Holland).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Cunnamulla, Mornington Is., Normanton, NSW—Bourke district, Tamworth, SA—Adelaide, Balcanoona Station, Blackwood, Calpatanna Conservation Park, Coorong National Park, Everard Ranges, Ferries-McDonald Conservation Park, Kalamurrina Waterhole, Lake Eyre, Lake Newland, Mt Barker, Mt Lofty, Ooldea, Pearson Is., Stuart Creek, Wirraminna, WA—Kununurra district, Marble Bar.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, granivore (associated flora: Acacia longifolia sophorae (Labill.) Court [FABACEAE] Coast Wattle; Melaleuca lanceolata Otto [MYRTACEAE]), herbivore, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

 

General References

Distant, W.L. 1911. Rhynchotal notes. LV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 7: 576-586 [585] (note)

Horváth, G. 1902. Descriptions of new Hemiptera from New South Wales. Természetrajzi Füzetek 25: 601-612 [602] (note)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [108] (catalogue)

 

Common Name References

Naumann, I. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Australian Insect Names. Common and Scientific Names for Insects and Allied Organisms of Economic and Environmental Importance. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications v 200 pp. [Date published 31/12/1993] [146] (Brown Bean Bug, Podsucking Bug)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	PENTATOMOMORPHA	05-Dec-2019	MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012		04-Oct-2019	MODIFIED
		05-Dec-2019	MODIFIED