Species Slaterellus hackeri Drake & Davis, 1959
- Slaterellus hackeri Drake, C.J. & Davis, N.T. 1959. A new subfamily, genus, and species of Lygaeidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) from Australia. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 49: 19-26 [25].
Type data:
Holotype USNM ♂, Goodna, QLD.
Paratype(s) BMNH; CAS; EUQ ♂; MNHP; QM T5767 ♂; CSLAT; USNM
Comment: 25 paratypes designated, number of paratypes for each institution not discernible from original description.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Brisbane, Forest Hills, Rockhampton, Stradbroke Is., NSW—Nyngan, SA—east of Poeppels Corner, east of Vokes Hill Junction, Granite Downs, Lucindale, Stuart River; WA—Shark Bay.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Arid, herbivore, laminaphiles, sap-feeder, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial.
General References
Kumar, R. 1968. Aspects of the morphology and relationships of the superfamilies Lygaeoidea, Piesmatoidea and Pyrrhocoroidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 103: 251-261 [251] (morphology)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [505] (catalogue)
Slater, J.A. 1979. The systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the Blissinae of the world. (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 165: 1-180 [8, 57, 163, 165, fig. 76] (morphology, list, species key, habitus)
History of changes
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| 06-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED |