Species Solenotichus circuliferus (Walker, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaerocoris circuliferus Walker, F. 1867. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-240. [7].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Hem. 372 ♂, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 2002. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Vol. 27.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiv 737 pp. [585, 646].
• Solenotichus brevipes Martin, J. 1897. Sur genre nouveau d'Hémiptère de la tribu des Scutellerinae [Solenotichus]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1897: 263-264 [264].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as Australie).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McDonald, F.J.D. & Cassis, G. 1984. Revision of the Australian Scutelleridae Leach (Hemiptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 537-572 [545]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Gayndah, Rockhampton, NSW—Bogan River, Bourke, Coonabarabran, Darling River, SA—Ardrossan, Ceduna, Danggali Conservation Park, Freeling, Kangaroo Is., Loftia Park, Loxton, Morgan, Ngarkat National Park, Serpentine Lakes, Wilpena Pound.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, folivore, herbivore (associated flora: Eucalyptus gongylocarpa Blakely, 1936 [MYRTACEAE] Marble Gum), sap-feeder, temperate, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Bergroth, E. 1908. Enumeratio Pentatomidarum post Catalogum bruxellensem descriptarum. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 15: 131-200 [139] (description)

Cassis, G. & Vanags, L. 2006. Jewel Bugs of Australia (Insecta: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Denisia Neue Serie 50: 275-398 [319] (diagnosis, description, distribution, key to spp., illustrations)

Gross, G.F. 1975. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera. Adelaide : A.B. James Vol. 1 250 pp., 3 colour pls. [86 fig. 20] (description, habitus)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1909. Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of foodplants and parasites, etc. Prefaced by a discussion on nomenclature, and an analytical table of families. Cimicidae. Berlin : Felix L. Dames Vol. 1 xl 392 pp. [313] (catalogue)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	PENTATOMOMORPHA	05-Dec-2019	MODIFIED
15-Aug-2012		04-Oct-2019	MODIFIED
		05-Dec-2019	MODIFIED