Species Oxycarenus (Oxycarenus) arctatus (Walker, 1872)
Coon Bug
- Anthocoris arctatus 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. [153].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (publication indicates ♂ specimen), Australia (no exact locality given).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
SA—Adelaide, Caroline Forest Reserve, Kingston district, Lake Eyre, Mt Serle Station, Parachilna, Poepels Corner district, Port Augusta, Purni Bore, Spilsby Is., Underdale, Woodville, VIC—Bairnsdale, Melbourne, South Yarra, WA—Tunney.
IBRA
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), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Aposematic, arboreal, coprophagous, diurnal, granivore, herbivore (associated flora: Prunus armeniaca L. [ROSACEAE] Apricot; Gossypium hirsutum L. [MALVACEAE] Cotton; Citrus aurantium L. [RUTACEAE] Orange; Prunus persica (L.) Batsch [ROSACEAE] Peach, Nectarine; Prunus domestica L. [ROSACEAE] Plum; Platysace heterophylla heterophylla (Benth.) C.Norman [APIACEAE] Slender Platysace), sap-feeder, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Pest, found feeding on cattle dung.
General References
Anon. 1942. Insect pests. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 53: 36-40 [40] (pest, host plant, oviposition)
Evans, J.W. 1952. The Injurious Insects of the British Commonwealth (except the British Isles, India and Pakistan): with a section on the control of weeds by insects. London : Commonwealth Institute of Entomology vii 42 pp. [103] (pest, host plant)
Froggatt, W.W. 1901. Notes on Australian Hemiptera (plant Bugs). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 12: 1592-1601 1 colour pl. [1599] (misidentification as Oxycarenus luctuosus)
Gross, G.F. 1957. A revision of the flower bugs (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) of the Australian and adjacent Pacific Regions. Part III. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 13: 131-142 [137] (note)
Gross, G.F. 1959. On the Australian species of coon bugs Oxycarenus Fieber, Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 13: 359-368 pl. XLI [360, 363-364] (description)
Hargreaves, H. 1948. List of Recorded Cotton Insects of the World. London : Harrison & Sons Ltd 50 pp. [29] (pest)
Hely, P.C., Pasfield, G. & Gellatley, J.G. 1982. Insect Pests of Fruit and Vegetables in NSW. Melbourne : Inkata Press 312 pp. [136, 145, 165, 181] (bionomics)
Hill, G.F. 1926. Insects affecting cotton in Australia. Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress 1: 406-408 [336] (pest)
Malipatil, M.B. 1987. A new species of Oxycarenus Fieber from Australia (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 4: 39-41 [39] (note)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [668] (catalogue)
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] [152] (Coon Bug)
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | PENTATOMOMORPHA | 05-Dec-2019 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Dec-2019 | LYGAEOIDEA | 04-Oct-2019 | MODIFIED | |
| 15-Aug-2012 | 05-Dec-2019 | MODIFIED | ||
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