Species Oxycarenus (Oxycarenus) luctuosus (Montrouzier, 1861)

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Species Oxycarenus (Oxycarenus) luctuosus (Montrouzier, 1861)

Cottonseed Bug

Macroplax luctuosus Montrouzier, X. 1861. Essai sur la faune entomologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Balade) et des îles des Pins, Art, Lifu, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 1: 59-74 [67].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP (depository uncertain), Lifu, New Caledonia (as Nouvelle-Calédonie).
Oxycarenus lifuanus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1905. Memoir on the Rhynchota collected by Dr. Arthur Willey, F.R.S., chiefly in Birara (New Britain) and Lifu. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1905: 327-363, pl. 17 [347].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, Lifu, New Caledonia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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 [359]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Birdsville, Brisbane, Bundamba, Carnarvon, Daintree area, Deception Bay, Doomadgee Mission, Lawes, Lockhardt River, Rockhampton, Yeppoon, NSW—Gunningblad State Forest, Murda State Forest, Tooloom Range, Tweed Heads, SA—Adelaide, Knowles Cave, Lake Palankarinna, Marree, Medindie, Moolooloo, Musgrave Ranges, Underdale, Westbourne Park, NT—Daly River, Darwin, Roper River, WA—Millstream.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, herbivore (associated flora: Opuntia stricta stricta (Haw.) Haw. [CACTACEAE] Common Prickly Pear; Gossypium hirsutum L. [MALVACEAE] Cotton; Sida cordifolia L. [MALVACEAE] Flannel Weed; Brachychiton populneus populneus (Schott & Endl.) R.Br. [MALVACEAE] Kurrajong; Citrus aurantium L. [RUTACEAE] Orange; Solanum tuberosum L. [SOLANACEAE] Potato; Fragaria ananassa Duch. [ROSACEAE] Strawberry; Sida acuta Burm.f. [MALVACEAE]; Hibiscus solanifolius F.Muell. [MALVACEAE]; Malva parviflora L. [MALVACEAE]), sap-feeder, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.