Species Ochterus australicus Jaczewski, 1934

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• Ochterus australicus Jaczewski, T. 1934. Notes on the Old World species of Ochteridae (Heteroptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 13: 597-613 [607].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, New Caledonia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Baehr, M. 1990. Revision of the genus Ochterus Latreille in the Australian region (Heteroptera: Ochteridae). Entomologica Scandinavica 20: 449-477 [452].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Blackall Ranges, Bellenden Ker, Brisbane, Gold Creek, Lake Broadwater, Tinaroo Creek, Townsville, Torres Strait Ils (Banks Is.), NSW—Sydney, TAS—Blackman's Lagoon, WA—Kimberley district, NT—Adelaide River, also Melanesia—New Caledonia, Solomon Ils, Vanuatu.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Flinders (FLI), Northern Kimberley (NK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

On stones by water, near borders of brooks, rivers and lakes, freshwater lakes.

 

General References

Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 2004. Australian Water Bugs. Their Biology and Identification (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha). Entomonographen Denmark : Apollo Books Vol. 14 344 pp.

Baehr, M. 1989. Review of the Australian Ochteridae. Spixiana (Munich) 11: 111-126 [113, 114, figs 1, 7, 15, 16, 30] (key, description)

Baehr, M. 1990. Revision of the genus Ochterus Latreille in the Australian region (Heteroptera: Ochteridae). Entomologica Scandinavica 20: 449-477 [452, figs 1, 21, 41, 89, 106, 126] (key, description)

Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Ochteridae from the Oriental and Australian Regions. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Pacific Insects 13: 429-444 [439]

 

History of changes

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