Species Pachyplagia australia Gross, 1951
- Pachyplagia australia Gross, G.F. 1951. On three new genera and species of Schizopterinae (Heteroptera: Cryptostemmatidae) from Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9: 535-544 [539].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA I20053 ♂, Sydney, NSW.
Paratype(s) SAMA I20054–I20061 (42 specimens).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Glasshouse Mts, NSW—Pilliga Scrub, plus type locality, ACT—Uriarra, SA—Port Lincoln, Tintinara.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
Coastal, cryptozoic, predator, subtropical, temperate, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Larvae unknown, myrmecophilous, associated with Brachyponera lutea (Mayr) [Formicidae], taken in ponerine ant nests, more common in drier inland zones.
General References
Carver, M., Gross, G.F. & Woodward, T.E. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, etc.) [with contributions by Cassis, G., Evans, J.W., Fletcher, M.J., Hill, L., Lansbury, I., Malipatil, M.B., Monteith, G.B., Moulds, M.S., Polhemus, J.T., Slater, J.A., Štys, P., Taylor, K.L., Weir, T.A. & Williams, D.J.]. pp. 429-509 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp. [481]
Emsley, M.G. 1969. The Schizopteridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with the description of new species from Trinidad. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 1969(25): 1-154 [104] (list, type information)
Hill, L. 1990. A revision of Pachyplagia Gross (Heteroptera: Schizopteridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 605-617 [608, figs 1-25] (description, distribution)
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