Species Neolethaeus descriptus (Walker, 1872)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhyparochromus descriptus 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. [103].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Sula.

  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 [263].

  Type locality references:

  Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 2002. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Vol. 27.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiv 737 pp. [307] (original type locality as Sula, most likely to be the island group—Sula Islands, Indonesia).
• Aphanus raja Distant, W.L. 1906. Oriental Heteroptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 50: 405-417 [415].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Kuching.

  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 [278].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Scudder, G.G.E. 1962. The world Rhyparochrominae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). I. New synonymy and generic changes. The Canadian Entomologist 94: 764-773 [769]

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

Granivore, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

General References

Ashlock, P.D. 1964. Two new tribes of Rhyparochrominae: a re-evaluation of the Lethaeini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 57: 414-422 [420] (Aphanus raja possible transfer to Neolethaeus)

Barber, H.G. 1958. Insects of Micronesia. Heteroptera: Lygaeidae. Insects of Micronesia 7: 173-218 [217-218] (description)

China, W.E. 1926. Synonymic notes on Hemiptera. The Entomologist 59: 38 [38] (synonymy)

Distant, W.L. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2(1) x 242 pp. [89] (description)

Distant, W.L. 1918. Contributions to a further knowledge of the Rhynchotal Family Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 2: 173-179, 257-270, 416-424, 486-492 [269] (description, synonymy)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [828] (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. [100] (catalogue)

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