Species Neuroctenus handschini Kormilev, 1953
- Neuroctenus handschini Kormilev, N.A. 1953. Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere (Hemiptera). Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 333-346 [342].
Type data:
Holotype MHNB ♂, Marrakai, NT.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Somerset, Torres Strait Ils (Moa Is., Yorke Is.), Cape Pallarenda, Cape York Peninsula, Greta Creek, Lockerbie, Magnetic Is., Mt Cook National Park, Proserpine, WA—Montalivet Is. NT—Arnhem Land, Darwin, Fogg Dam, Horn Islet, Kaplaga (North Point), Magela Creek, Melville Is.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, cryptozoic, fungivore, gregarious, terrestrial, tropical, under bark, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Specimen(s) from Darwin taken in nest of Mastotermes sp. (Isoptera).
General References
Kormilev, N.A. 1953. Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere (Hemiptera). Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 333-346 [342] (misidentification as Neuroctenus vicinus Signoret, 1880)
Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Aradidae in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide II. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 513-550 [532] (distribution)
Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Mezirinae of the Oriental Region and South Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 26: 1-165 [65] (key)
Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [168] (catalogue)
Monteith, G.B. 1997. Revision of the Australian flat bugs of the subfamily Mezirinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aradidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(1): 1-169 [32, figs 12D,I,U, 13B,N,O, 14A] (description)
History of changes
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