Species Pachygrontha austrina Kirkaldy, 1908
- Pachygrontha austrina Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. Memoir on a few heteropterous Hemiptera from eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 768-788 pl. xliii [771].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Kuranda, QLD.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Bamaga, Bathurst Head, Bentinck Is., Cairns, Cooktown, Dunk Is., Deception Bay, Gladstone, Kuranda, Lankelly Creek, McIlwraith Range, Magnetic Is., Mornington Is., Mossman, Normanton, Rockhampton, Shipton's Flat, Torres Strait Ils (Horn Is. and Moa Is.), Townsville, VIC—Mt Baw Baw, NT—Adelaide River, Batchelor, Darwin, Dingo Hole Dam, Groote Eylandt, Katherine River, Leila Lagoon, Roper River.
IBRA
NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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
Granivore, open forest, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, up-on-plants.
General References
Cassis, G. 1993. A report on the Heteroptera and Dermaptera from the survey of Cape York Peninsula. pp. 109–123 in, Cape York Peninsula Scientific Expedition Wet Season 1992 Report. Volume 1. Fortitude Valley : The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland vii 295 pp. [113] (distribution, habitat)
Slater, J.A. 1955. A revision of the subfamily Pachygronthinae of the World (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Philippine Journal of Science 84: 1-160 4 pls [61] (description)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [719] (catalogue)
Slater, J.A. 1966. A further contribution to our knowledge of the Pachygronthinae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 5: 51-65 [57] (list)
History of changes
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