Species Spermatodes australis (Schouteden, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sepontia australis Schouteden, H. 1906. Pentatomides nouveaux ou peu connus de la faune indo-australienne. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 50: 137-144 [142].

  Type data:

   Holotype RIB ♀, Duaringa, QLD (as Dusingo, QLD).

  Type locality 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. [479] (interpretation of original type locality as misspelling).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Bulburin, Iron Range.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore, sap-feeder, terrestrial, tropical, volant.

 

General References

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. [366] (catalogue)

McDonald, F.J.D. 1989. Spermatodes grossi sp. n. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) from Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 28: 291-293 [293] (key)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Aug-2012		15-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		06-Jun-2012	MODIFIED