Species Poeantius australopictus Gross & Scudder, 1963
- Poeantius australopictus Gross, G.F. & Scudder, G.G.E. 1963. The Australian Rhyparochromini (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 427-469 pls 19-24 [461].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Townsville, QLD.
Paratype(s) AM ♀; ANIC ♀; EUQ ♀; NHRM sex unknown; SAMA ♂ ♀; UBC ♂.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Brisbane, Normanton, NSW—Tooloom Range, WA—Kimberley district, NT—Darwin.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Diurnal, granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
General References
Distant, W.L. 1918. Contributions to a further knowledge of the Rhynchotal Family Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 2: 173-179, 257-270, 416-424, 486-492 [492] (misidentification as Poeantius lineatus Stål, 1874)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1628] (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. [176] (catalogue)
History of changes
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