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Species Graptostethus servus (Fabricius, 1787)

Seed Eating Bug

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Almaden, Archer River, Bentinck Is., Cairns district, Clermont, Coen, May Downs Station, Mornington Is., Mt Isa, Port Stewart, Rockhampton, Silver Plains Torres Strait Ils (Moa Is., York Is), WA—Canning Stock Route, Kununarra, Obagoonia, Wittenoom Gorge,NT—Boorroloola, Brunette Creek, Daly River, Darwin, Colyer Lagoon, Dingo Hole Dam, Georgina Gorge, Giles Waterhole, Groote Eyldandt, Katherine, Koolpinyah, Junction Waterhole, Lake Woods, Leila Lagoon, Roper River, Victoria River Downs.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore (associated flora: Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet [CONVOLVULACEAE] Coast Morning Glory; Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth [CONVOLVULACEAE] Common Morning Glory; Eucalyptus microtheca F.Muell. [MYRTACEAE] Coolabah; Gossypium hirsutum L. [MALVACEAE] Cotton; Corchorus capsularis L. [MALVACEAE] Jute; Corchorus olitorius L. [MALVACEAE] Jute; Eucalyptus argillacea W.Fitzg., 1918 [MYRTACEAE] Kimberley Grey Box; Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench [POACEAE] Millet, Sorghum; Saccharum officinarum L. [POACEAE] Sugarcane; Helianthus annuus L. [ASTERACEAE] Sunflower; Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. [CONVOLVULACEAE] Sweet Potato; Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC. [FABACEAE] Sword Bean; Nauclea orientalis L. [RUBIACEAE]; Ziziphus sp. [RHAMNACEAE]; Urena lobata L. [MALVACEAE]; Lophostemon grandiflorus (R.Br.) Peter G.Wilson & J.T.Waterh. [MYRTACEAE]; Terminalia platypteri F.Muell. [COMBRETACEAE]; Solanum lucani F.Muell. [SOLANACEAE]; Salsola pestifera A.Nels [CHENOPODIACEAE]; Pistacia vera L. [ANACARDIACEAE]; Ipomoea tuberosa L. [CONVOLVULACEAE]; Crotalaria juncea L. [FABACEAE]; Eucalyptus setosa Schauer [MYRTACEAE]; Canthium didymum C.F.Gaertner [RUBIACEAE]; Cleome sp. [CAPPARIDACEAE]), gregarious, open forest, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

 

General References

Grozeva, S. & Kuznetsova, V.G. 1993. Notes on the karyotypes of some lygaeid bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomomorpha, Lygaeidae). Folia Biologica. Kraków 41(3–4): 65-75 [66] (chromosomes)

Hamid, A. & Meher, K. 1976. The Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) of Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 19(217): 217-232 [225] (description, habitus, Pakistan)

Hoffmann, W.E. 1934. The life history of a species of Graptostethus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Lingnan Science Journal 13: 171-176 (biology)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [148] (catalogue)

Oshanin, B.F. 1906. Verzeichnis der Palaearktischen Hemipteren mit besondere Berücksichtigung ihrer Verteilung im Russischen Reiche. Band I Heteroptera. Supplement to Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences, St Petersburg. pp. i–lxxiv, 1–393. [254] (catalogue)

Péricart, J. 1998. Hémiptères Lygaeidae Euro-Méditerranéens. Volume 1. Généralités Systématique: Première Partie. Faune de France 84A: I-XX 1-468, 4 pls [135] (description)

Polhemus, J.T. & Chapman, H.C. 1979. Family Saldidae/shore bugs. pp. 16-33 in Menke, A.S. (ed.). The Semiaquatic and Aquatic Hemiptera of California (Heteroptera: Hemiptera). Berkeley : University of California Press. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1962. Mission zoologique de l'I.R.S.A.C. en Afrique orientale. (P. Basilewsky et N. Leleup, 1957). 83 Hemiptera Lygaeidae. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique 110: 400-453 [401] (Afrotropical Region)

Seidenstücker, G. 1964. Psileula mimica n. gen. n.sp. und die mikropteren Lygaeinen (Heteroptera, Lygaeidae). Reichenbachia 2 56: 199-207 [200] (morphology)

Slater, A. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Lygaeinae of Australia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52: 301-481 [393] (description)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [53, 57] (catalogue, bibliography)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [60] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Australian populations as Graptostethus servus pacifica)

Slater, J.A. 1964. Hemiptera (Heteroptera): Lygaeidae. pp. 15-228 in Hanström, B., Brinck, P. & Rudebeck, G. (eds). South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950–1951. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell Vol. 10. [54] (host plants)

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. [9] (catalogue)

Slater, J.A. & Sperry, B. 1973. The biology and distribution of the South African Lygaeinae, with descriptions of new species (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 28: 119-201 [136] (biology)

Stichel, W. 1957. Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Wanzen. II Europa (Hemiptera-Heteroptera Europae). Pentatomomorpha Lygaeoidea. Berlin : published privately pp. 60-96. [76] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement subspecific arrangement, Graptostethus servus conjunctus Stichel, 1957, G. servus insularis Stichel, 1957, G. servus maculicollis (Germar, 1847), G. servus pacificus Stichel, 1957 and G. servus stali Stichel, 1957)

Sweet, M.H. 2000. Seed and Chinch Bugs. pp. 143-264 in Schaefer, C.W. & Panizzi, A.R. (eds). Heteroptera of Economic Importance. Boca Raton : CRC Press 828 pp. [217] (bionomics)

Szent-Ivany, J.J.H. & Catley, A. 1960. Host plant and distribution records of some insects in New Guinea and adjacent islands. Pacific Insects 2: 255-261 [256] (host plants)

Zimsen, E. 1964. The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp. [136] (type specimens)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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05-Dec-2019 PENTATOMOMORPHA 05-Dec-2019 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 LYGAEOIDEA 04-Oct-2019 MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012 05-Dec-2019 MODIFIED
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