Species Roebournea diversa (Distant, 1900)
- Basicryptus diversus Distant, W.L. 1900. Rhynchotal notes. VI. Heteroptera: Dinidorinae, Phyllocephalinae, Urolabidinae and Acanthosominae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 6: 220-234 [223].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Swan River, WA. - Phyllocephala tumidifrons Van Duzee, E.P. 1905. Notes on Australian Pentatomidae, with descriptions of a few new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21: 187-214 [211].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AMNH 2 specimens, Roebourne, WA (as Rolbourne, NW Australia).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchotal notes. LII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 369-386, 465-481, 585-603 [595]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Cunnamulla, NSW—Angledool, WA— Fortescue River, Kununurra, Nicol Bay, Roebourne, NT—Elliot, MacDonnell Ranges, Petermann Ranges, Tempe Downs.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, arid, herbivore, sap-feeder, temperate, terrestrial, volant.
General References
Bergroth, E. 1916. Heteropterous Hemiptera collected by Professor W. Baldwin Spencer during the Horn Expedition into Central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 29: 19-39 [30] (description)
Gross, G.F. 1976. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera. Adelaide : A.B. James Vol. 2 251-501 pp. [418, fig. 185] (description, habitus)
History of changes
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