Species Protestrica stali (Schouteden, 1905)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Testrica stali Schouteden, H. 1905. Heteroptera. Fam. Pentatomidae. Subfam. Graphosomatinae. Genera Insectorum 30: 1-46 3 pls [26] [nom. nov. for Testrica emarginata Stål, 1876].
• Testrica emarginata Stål, C. 1876. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 5. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 14(4): 1-162 [32] [junior homonym of Bolbocoris emarginatus Vollenhoven, 1868].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂ ♀ specimens, N Australia (as Australia borealis).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

QLD: Fraser Is.; SA—Chowilla, Kingston-on-Murray, Vokes Hill region, Wistow.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore, sap-feeder, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Gross, G.F. 1975. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera. Adelaide : A.B. James Vol. 1 250 pp., 3 colour pls. [142 fig. 47] (description, habitus)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1909. Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of foodplants and parasites, etc. Prefaced by a discussion on nomenclature, and an analytical table of families. Cimicidae. Berlin : Felix L. Dames Vol. 1 xl 392 pp. [227] (catalogue)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Aug-2012		15-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		06-Jun-2012	MODIFIED