Species Paromius gracilis (Rambur, 1839)
- Stenocoris gracilis Rambur, J.P. 1839. Faune Entomologique de l'Andalousie. Paris : Arthur Bertrand 176 pp. [140].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Granada, Spain (as Grendale, Andalusia). - Plociomerus pallidus Montrouzier, P. 1864. Essai sur la faune entomologique de Kanala (Nouvelle-Calédonie) et description de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon ns 11: 46-257 [229].
Type data:
Status unknown, MNHP (depository uncertain), Kanala, New Caledonia (as Nouvelle-Calédonie). - Pachymerus nabiformis Costa, A. 1847. Cimicum Regni Neapolitani centuriae. Atti del Reale Istituto d'Incorra giamento alle Scienze Naturali. Napoli. 1847(1):. 1-41 pp. [16].
Type data:
Lectotype ZIUN ♀, southern Italy (as Italie Sud).Subsequent designation references:
Carapezza, A., Faraci, F. & Péricart, J. 1995. Designation of lectotypes and paralectotypes of Palaearctic Heteroptera in the collection of Achille Costa. Il Naturalista Siciliano, Giornale di Scienze Naturali. Palermo 4 19(3–4): 279-294 [286]. - Rhyparochromus proximus Dallas, W.S. 1852. List of the Specimens of Hemipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Taylor & Francis Part 2 369-592 pp. pls XII-XV. [579].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH sex unknown (specimen damaged), Sierra Leone.
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 2 specimens.Subsequent designation references:
Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 20: 251-285 [278]. - Plociomerus nabizoides Signoret, V. 1861. Faune de Hémiptères de Madagascar. 2. Heteroptères. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 8: 917-972 [951].
Type data:
Lectotype NHMW ♀, Madagascar.Subsequent designation references:
Péricart, J. 1998. Désignation de lectotypes et paralectotypes pour des Lygaeidae paléarticques et commentaires (Heteroptera). 5. Les Types des auteurs allemands, italiens et d'auteurs divers. Revue Française d'Entomologie N.S. 20(1–2): 5-12 [10]. - Plociomerus seychellesus 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. [120].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Round Is., Seychelles.Subsequent designation references:
Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 20: 251-285 [280].Type locality references:
Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 20: 251-285 [280]. - Pamera ejuncida Distant, W.L. 1883. First report on the Rhynchota collected in Japan by Mr. George Lewis. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1883: 413-443 pls XIIX-XX [443].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Japan.Subsequent designation references:
Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 20: 251-285 [264]. - Rhyparochromus natalensis Stål, C. 1855. Hemiptera fran Kafferlandet. Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandlingar 1: 27-46 [34].
Type data:
Lectotype NHRM, South Africa (as Kafferland).Type locality references:
Scudder, G.G.E. 1977. The world Rhyparochrominae types (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). XIII. The Stål types. Entomologica Scandinavica 8: 29-35 [33]. - Nabis discifer Walker, F. 1870. A list of the Hemiptera collected by J.K. Lord, Esq., in Egypt along the African shore of the Red Sea and in Arabia, with descriptions of the species new to Science. The Zoologist 2 5: 2339-2341, 2378-2381, 2403, 2405 [2380].
Type data:
Status unknown, BMNH (type lost), Egypt. - Paromius djoufensis Lindberg, H. 1938. Zwei neuen Heteropteren aus El Djouf in der Westlichen Sahara. Einige Heteropterenfunde aus Nord-Persien. Notulae Entomologicae 18: 85-91 [87].
Type data:
Holotype UZMH ♂, western Sahara (as Westlichen Sahara).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana. Holmiae : Norstedtiana Vol. 2 181 pp. [157-158] (synonymy of Rhyparochromus natalensis and Plociomerus nabizoides)
- Puton, A. 1875. Catalogue des Hémiptères (Hétéroptères, Cicadines & Psyllides) d'Europe et du Bassin de la Méditerranée. Paris : Deyrolle 87 pp. [23] (synonymy of Rhyparochromus proximus)
- Ferrari, P.M. 1878. Hemiptera Ligustica adjecta & emendata. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 1 12: 60-96 [77] (synonymy of Pachymerus nabiformis)
- Distant, W.L. 1901. Rhynchotal notes. XI. Heteroptera: Fam. Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 464-486, 497-510 [477] (synonymy of Pamera ejuncida with Plociomerus pallidus, as a misidentification of Plociomerus seychellesus)
- China, W.E. 1924. The Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Rodriguez, with the descriptions of a new species of Cicada from that island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 14: 427-453 [433] (synonymy of Plociomerus seychellesus)
- Kerzhner, I.M. 1963. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Unterfamilie Nabinae (Heteroptera: Nabidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 35: 5-61 [61] (synonymy of Nabis discifer)
- Malipatil, M.B. 1978. Revision of the Myodochini (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Rhyparochrominae) of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 56: 1-178 [58] (synonymy of Plociomerus pallidus)
- Péricart, J. 1998. Hémiptères Lygaeidae Euro-Méditerranéens. Volume 1. Généralités Systématique: Troisième Partie. Rhyparochrominae (2). Faune de France 84C: I-VI 1-487, pls 2 [334] (synonymy of Paromius djoufensis)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Babinda, Brisbane, Brookfield, Bulburin State Forest, Canungra, Carnarvon, Chincilla, Colosseum Creek, Cooloola, Cunnamulla, Dalby, Gayndah, Gladstone, Goomeri, Imbil State Forest, Iron Range, Kenilworth district, Knob Lagoon, Lotus Creek, Mapleton, Mt Crosby, Mt Glorious, Mt Spec, Oakey, Rathdowney, Rockhampton, Theodore, Tibrogargan Creek, Torres Strait Ils (Darnley Is., Moa Is.), Whetstone, NSW—Acacia Plateau, Woodenbong.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Granivore (associated flora: Imperata cylindrica (L.) P.Beauv. [POACEAE] Blady Grass; Saccharum ravennae L. [POACEAE] Ravennagrass; Andropogon hirtus L. [POACEAE]; Andropogon distachyos L. [POACEAE]; Andropogon ischaemum L. [POACEAE]), ground dweller, herbivore, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Adults overwinter.
General References
Fieber, F.X. 1861. Die europäischen Hemiptera: Halbflügler (Rhynchota Heteroptera). Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet. Wien : C. Gerold 113-444 pp., 2 pls. [171] (description)
Harrington, B.J. 1980. A generic level revision and cladistic analysis of the Myodochini of the World (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae, Rhyparochromidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 167(2): 45-116 [94] (list)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1151-1153] (catalogue)
Slater, J.A. & O'Donnell, J.E. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World (1960–1994). New York : New York Entomological Society xv 410 pp. [157] (catalogue)
Stichel, W. 1959. Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Deutschen Wanzen. II. Europa (Hemiptera-Heteroptera Europae). Berlin-Hermsdorf : Verlag W. Stichel Vol. 4(8-12) pp. 225-384. [Pt 8, Pentatomomorpha Lygaeoidea Lygaeidae (7) pp. 225–256; Pt 9, Pentatomomorpha Lygaeiodea Lygaeidae (8) pp. 257–288; Pt 10, Pentatomomorpha Lygaeidae (9), Pyrrhocoridae Addenda, Corrigenda Supplementa Liste der paläarktischen Arten (1) pp. 289–320; Pt 11, Liste der paläarkstischen Arten (2. Fortsetzung) Pentatomomorpha Lygaeidae pp. 321–352; Pt 12, Pentatomomorpha Coreoidea Stenocephalidae Coreidae (Coreinae) pp. 353–384] [293] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement subspecific arrangement)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 17-Nov-2022 | RHYPAROCHROMIDAE | 17-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 10-May-2022 | RHYPAROCHROMIDAE | 13-Oct-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Dec-2019 | PENTATOMOMORPHA | 17-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Dec-2019 | LYGAEOIDEA | 17-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 15-Aug-2012 | 17-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | ||
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