Species Scopiastes degeeri (Stål, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Astacops degeeri Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera nova vel minus cognita. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 5: 163-188 [187].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM, N Australia (as Australia borealis).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Bunya Mountains, Lamington National Park, Nanango district, Peak Downs.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Aposematic, arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [136] (catalogue)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1963. A revision of the genus Astacops sensu lat. (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Pacific Insects 5: 315-415 [379] (description, key)

Slater, A. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Lygaeinae of Australia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52: 301-481 [351, fig. 16] (description, habitus)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [190] (catalogue)

 

History of changes

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