Genus Physopelta Amyot & Serville, 1843

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• Physopelta Amyot, C.J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Hémiptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Rue Hautefeuille 10 B13 676 pp. [271].

  Type species:

   Physopelta erythrocephala Amyot & Serville, 1843 by subsequent designation, see Distant, W.L. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2(1) x 242 pp. [97].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Distant, W.L. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2(1) x 242 pp. [97] (description)

Hussey, R.F. 1929. Pyrrhocoridae. Fascicle III. pp. 1–144 in, General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Northampton : Smith College. [28] (catalogue)

Kirkaldy, G.W. & Edwards, S. 1902. Anmerkungen über bemerkenswerte Pyrrhocorinen (Rynchota). Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 21(7): 161-172 [165] (description)

Poisson, R. 1951. Ordre des Hétéroptères. (Heteroptera Latreille, 1810—Frontirostres Fallén, 1814). pp. 1657-1803 in Grassé, P.P. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. Insectes supérieurs et Hémiptéroides. Paris : Masson & Cie Vol. 10. [1789] (note)

Schmidt, E. 1931. Zur Kenntnis der Familie Pyrrhocoridae Fieber. (Hemiptera — Heteroptera). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 92: 1-51 [45] (list)

Stål, C. 1863. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pyrrhocoriden. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7: 390-404 [390]

Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana. Holmiae : Norstedtiana Vol. 3 200 pp. [2] (description)

Stål, C. 1870. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 1. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 9(1): 1-232 [99] (description)

Stehlik, J.L. 1965. Pyrrhocoridae and Largidae collected by E.S. Brown on Solomon Islands (Heteroptera). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 50: 253-291 pls I-VIII [287] (description)

Villiers, A. 1952. Initiations Africaines. IX. Hémiptères de l'Afrique Noire (Punaiseset cigales). Institut Français d'Afrique Noire-Dakar 9: 1-256 [120] (distribution)

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