Species Riptortus abdominalis (Westwood, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alydus abdominalis Westwood, J.O. 1842. A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. II. London : J.C. Bridgewater 26 pp. [19].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM Hem. 349 2 specimens (given in original description as "Habitat in Brasalia?"; probably mislabelling as genus does not occur in the Western Hemisphere), locality unknown.
• Alydus obscuricornis 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. [475].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Darwin, NT (as Port Essington).
• Riptortus horvathi Bergroth, E. 1906. Systematische und synonymische Bemerkungen über Hemipteren. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 25: 1-12 [4] [unnecessary nom. nov. for misidentification of Riptortus serripes (Fabricius, 1775) sensu Horváth, 1902].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1901. Revision of the Rhynchota belonging to the family Coreidae in the Hope Collection at Oxford. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901(1): 325-335 pls 29-30 [332] (synonymy of Alydus obscuricornis)
• China, W.E. 1930. Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Part II. Fasc. 3. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 2(3): 81-162 [100] (synonymy of Riptortus horvathi)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, granivore, herbivore, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

General References

Blöte, H.C. 1934. Catalogue of the Coreidae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Part I, Corizinae, Alydinae. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 17: 253-285 [278] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Riptortus horvathi as separate species)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [111, 113] (separate species, Alydus abdominalis as incertae sedis)

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