Species Myocara acuminatum (Dallas, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhyparochromus acuminata 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. [567].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Australia (as New Holland).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 20: 251-285 [255].

Distribution

States

Queensland

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

Flightless, granivore, terrestrial.

General References

Gross, G.F. 1958. Australian beetle-mimicking bugs of the family Lygaeidae (Subfamily Rhyparochrominae: Tribe Lethaeini). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 13: 227-233 [229] (wing polymorphism)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [233] (catalogue; incertae sedis)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [836] (catalogue)

Slater, J.A. & O'Donnell, J.E. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World (1960–1994). New York : New York Entomological Society xv 410 pp. [99] (catalogue)

Stål, C. 1874. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 4. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 12(1): 1-186 [166] (incertae sedis)

Steyskal, G.C. 1973. The grammar of names in Slater's Catalogue of Lygaeidae of the World (Heteroptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 75: 276-279 [277] (as Myocara acuminatum)

Walker, F. 1872. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-202. [109] (list)

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