Species Mictis profana (Fabricius, 1803)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lygaeus profanus Fabricius, J.C. 1803. Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, species adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunsvigae : Carolum Reichard x 314 pp. emmendanda. [33].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Ambon, Indonesia (as Amboina).
• Mictis crucifera Leach, W.E. 1814. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 1 144 pp. 60 pls. [92].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Australia.
• Anisoscelis abdominalis Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1838. Pt 2 Div. 1 ch. xiii Insectes. pp. 57-302 in Duperrey, L.J. (ed.). Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825. Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand. [176].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Ambon, Indonesia (as Amboine).
• Mictis crux 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. [405].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ specimens, Navigators Ils.
• Mictis symbolica 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. [404].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ specimens, Australia (as N. Holland).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [404] (synonymy of Mictis crucifera and Anisoscelis abdominalis)
• Distant, W.L. 1900. Rhynchotal notes. VII. Heteroptera: Fam. Coreidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 6: 366-380 [371] (synonymy of Mictis crux and Mictis symbolica)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Cairns, Cunnamulla, Gayndah, Gordonvale, Kuranda, Mitchell, Mornington Is., Torres Strait Ils (Mabuiag Is., Moa Is.), Townsville, Tully, NSW—Broken Hill, Coonabarabran, Menindee Lakes, VIC—Bamawn, Gembrook, SA— Algebuckina, Barton, Blinman, Bordertown, Copley, Glenunga, Fulham, Klemzig, Ketchowia Station, Lake Eyre, Lake Gilles, Murbko, Orroroo, Roseworthy, Simpson Desert, Vokes Hill area, WA—Attadale, Barraghup, Byro Station, Flora Valley, Frazer Range, Furnisdale, Gill Pinnacle, Mandurah, Mitchell Plateau district, Yornup, NT—Darwin, Dingo Hole Dam, Finke River Valley, Groote Eylandt, Illamurta Spring Conservation Park, Roper River.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, 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), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), 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 Coastal Plain (SCP), 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 Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore (associated flora: Acacia floribunda (Vent.) Willd. [FABACEAE] White Sally; Parkinsonia aculeata L. [CAESALPINIACEAE]; Cassia didymobotrya Fresen. [CAESALPINIACEAE]; Pittosporum phylliraeoides DC. [PITTOSPORACEAE]; Neptunia najor F.Muell. [MIMOSACEAE]; Dicrastylis exsuccosa (F.Muell.) Druce [VERBENACEAE]; Cathormion umbellatum (Vahl) Kosterm. [FABACEAE]; Rumex brownii Campd. [POLYGONACEAE]; Phaseolus sp. [FABACEAE]; Solanum sp. [SOLANACEAE]; Citrus sp. [RUTACEAE]; Acacia cunninghami Hook. [FABACEAE]; Lavatera plebeia Sim. [MALVACEAE]; Wisteria chinensis D.C. [FABACEAE]; Acacia mearnsii De Wild. [FABACEAE] Black Wattle; Acacia baileyana F.Muell. [FABACEAE] Cootamundra Wattle; Eucalyptus miniata A.Cunn. ex Schauer [MYRTACEAE] Darwin Woollybutt; Cassia coluteoides Collad. [CAESALPINIACEAE] Easter Cassia; Cassia coluteoides Collad. [CAESALPINIACEAE] Easter Cassia; Mimosa pigra L. [MIMOSACEAE] Giant Sensitive Weed; Acacia spectabilis Benth. [FABACEAE] Glory Wattle, Pillaga Wattle, Mudgee Wattle; Cassia fistula L. [CAESALPINIACEAE] Golden Shower; Acacia pycnantha Benth. [FABACEAE] Golden Wattle; Acacia saligna (Labill.) H.L. Wendl. [FABACEAE] Golden Wreath Wattle; Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE] Gum Tree; Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit [MIMOSACEAE] Lead Tree; Vitis sp. [VITACEAE] Ornamental Grapes; Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Delile [FABACEAE] Prickly Acacia; Acacia podalyriifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don [FABACEAE] Queensland Silver Wattle; Rosa sp. [ROSACEAE] Rose; Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd. [FABACEAE] Sydney Golden Wattle; Acacia cyclops A.Cunn. ex G.Don [FABACEAE] Western Coastal Wattle), sap-feeder, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Parasitised by Chrysochalcissa olivacea Girault (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), Anastatus sp. nr. pentatomidivorus Girault (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae), Gyron pentatomum (Dodd) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae); predator: Pristhesancus plagipennis Walker (Reduviidae).

 

General References

Angas, G.F. 1846. South Australia Illustrated. Haymarket (London) : Thomas McLean 60 pls. 60 pp. [pl. 47 fig. 12]

Anon. 1940. Some common insect pests of fruit trees and vines in South Australia. Journal of the Department of Agriculture of South Australia 34: 633-646 (pest)

Anon. 1942. Insect pests. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 53: 36-40 (pest)

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 [298] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement subspecific arrangement as Mictis profana abdominalis)

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)

China, W.E. 1930. Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Part II. Fasc. 3. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 2(3): 81-162 [95] (description, Samoa)

Distant, W.L. 1914. Rhynchota from New Caledonia and the surrounding islands. 369-390 pls xi, xii in Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds). Nova Caledonia Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln A. Zoologie. Wiesbaden : C.W. Kreidels Vol. 2. [377] (New Caledonia)

Distant, W.L. 1920. Rhynchota from New Caledonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 6: 143-164 [148] (New Caledonia)

Flanagan, G.J. 1994. The Australian distribution of Mictis profana (F.) (Hemiptera: Coreidae) and its life cycle on Mimosa pigra L. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 33: 111-114 (distribution, host plants)

French, C. 1909. A Handbook of the Destructive Pests of Victoria: with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them. Melbourne : R.S. Brain, Government Printer 195 pp., pls LXV-XCVIII. [69 pl. 70] (description)

French, C. & Pescott, R.T.M. 1933. Native insect pests of orchard and garden. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria 31: 580-582 [580] (pest)

Froggatt, W.W. 1902. Notes on Australian Hemiptera. (Plant Bugs). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 13: 318-324 1 colour pl. (biology)

Hely, P.C., Pasfield, G. & Gellatley, J.G. 1982. Insect Pests of Fruit and Vegetables in NSW. Melbourne : Inkata Press 312 pp. [74] (bionomics)

Hori, K. 2000. Possible causes of disease symptoms resulting from the feeding of phytophagous Heteroptera. pp. 11-35 in Schaefer, C.W. & Panizzi, A.R. (eds). Heteroptera of Economic Importance. Boca Raton : CRC Press 828 pp. [14, Tab. 1, 18, Tab 2, 20, Tab. 3] (physiology)

Horváth, G. 1900. Hemiptera. in Semon, R. Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 8: 629-642 [634] (description)

Horváth, G. 1919. Hemipteren von den Aru- and Kei- Inseln. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 35(3): 305-314 [309] (New Guinea)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1905. Memoir on the Rhynchota collected by Dr. Arthur Willey, F.R.S., chiefly in Birara (New Britain) and Lifu. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1905: 327-363, pl. 17 [352] (Melanesia)

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 [921] (host plant, larvae, biology)

Mayr, G. 1866. Hemiptera. Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wällerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. I. Abtheilung. B. Wien : Karl Gerold's Sohn 1-204 pls I-V. [82] (description)

McKeown, K.C. 1942. Australian insects. The bugs—order Hemiptera-Heteroptera, I. Australian Museum Magazine 8: 27-31 [28] (biology, taxonomy)

Mitchell, P.L. 2000. Leaf-footed bugs (Coreidae). pp. 337-403 in Schaefer, C.W. & Panizzi, A.R. (eds). Heteroptera of Economic Importance. Boca Raton : CRC Press 828 pp. [378] (bionomics)

Montrouzier, X. 1861. Essai sur la faune entomologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Balade) et des îles des Pins, Art, Lifu, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 1: 59-74 [66] (description)

Musgrave, A. 1945. The Simpson Desert Expedition, 1939. Scientific Reports: No. 4 Biology—Hemiptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 69: 14-15 [14] (distribution, Central Australia)

Naumann, I.D. & Steinbauer, M.J. 2001. Egg parasitoids of Australian Coreidae (Hemiptera). Australian Journal of Entomology 40: 9-16 [12] (parasitoids)

Poisson, R. 1951. Ordre des Hétéroptères. (Heteroptera Latreille, 1810—Frontirostres Fallén, 1814). pp. 1657-1803 in Grassé, P.P. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. Insectes supérieurs et Hémiptéroides. Paris : Masson & Cie Vol. 10. [1746] (taxonomy)

Schmeltz, J.D.E. 1874. Catalog der zum Verkauf stehenden Doubletten aus den naturhistorischen Expedition der Herren Joh. Hamburg : Ges. Godeffroy & Sohn Vol. 5 xxxvi 215 pp. [63] (Samoa)

Schouteden, H. 1907. Les types d'Hémiptères de Montrouzier. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 106-118 [113] (description)

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 [44, 45] (separate species, Melanesia)

Taylor, G.S. & Miles, P.W. 1994. Composition and variability of the saliva of coreids in relation to phytoxicoses and other aspects of the salivary physiology of phytophagous Heteroptera. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 73(3): 265-277 (feeding physiology)

Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd 560 pp. 42 pls. [147 pl. 12 fig. 4] (description)

Tryon, H. 1892. Zoology of British New Guinea, II Hemiptera. Annals of the Queensland Museum 2: 13-24 [21] (description)

Usinger, R.L. 1939. Distribution of the Heteroptera of Oceania. Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Science Congress 4: 311-315 [313] (distribution)

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. [30, 31] (distribution, Mictis symbolica and Mictis crux as possible variety of Mictis profana)

Waterhouse, D.F. & Gilby, A.R. 1964. The adult scent glands and scent of nine bugs of the superfamily Coreoidea. Journal of Insect Physiology 10: 977-987 (defensive secretions)

Westwood, J.O. 1837. A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the Collection of the Rev. F.W. Hope and Descriptions of the new Species of Scutelleridae. Part I. London : J.C. Bridgewater 46 pp. [10] (incorrect original spelling as Myctis profana)

 

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] [150] (Crusader Bug)

 

History of changes

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16-Jun-2022	COREIDAE	16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	PENTATOMOMORPHA	31-May-2022	MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012		16-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
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