Species Mictis caja Stål, 1865

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• Mictis caja Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera nova vel minus cognita. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 5: 163-188 [173].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀, Moreton Bay, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Albert River, Brisbane, Bundaberg, Canungra, Kuranda, Nanango district, Sandgate.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, folivore, herbivore (associated flora: Nicandra physalodes Gaertn. [SOLANACEAE] Apple-of-Peru; Phaseolus sp. [FABACEAE] Beans; Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. [SOLANACEAE] Tomato), sap-feeder, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Parasitised by Gyron pentatomum (Dodd) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae).

 

General References

Blöte, H.C. 1938. Catalogue of the Coreidae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Part IV. Coreinae, third part. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 20: 275-308 [297] (catalogue)

Kumar, R. 1965. Aspects of the morphology of Coreoidea and their value in its higher classification. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 76: 27-91 [28, 30, 52, 73, 84] (morphology)

Kumar, R. 1966. Studies on the biology, immature stages, and relative growth of some Australian bugs of the superfamily Coreoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 895-991 [929] (host plant, larvae, biology)

Naumann, I.D. & Steinbauer, M.J. 2001. Egg parasitoids of Australian Coreidae (Hemiptera). Australian Journal of Entomology 40: 9-16 [13] (parasitoid)

O'Shea, R. & Schaefer, C.W. 1980. A generic revision of the Asian and Australian Mictini (Heteroptera: Coreidae). Oriental Insects 14: 221-251 [230] (list)

Schaefer, C.W. & O'Shea, R. 1979. Host plants of three coreine tribes (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 72: 519-523 [520] (host plants)

Stål, C. 1873. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 3. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 11(2): 1-163 [45] (list)

Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-211. [31] (list)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Jun-2022	COREIDAE	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	PENTATOMOMORPHA	31-May-2022	MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012		16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
		16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED