Species Stigmatonotum geniculatum (Motschulsky, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stigmatonotum minutum Malipatil, M.B. 1978. Revision of the Myodochini (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Rhyparochrominae) of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 56: 1-178 [23].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T7574 ♂, Iron Range, Cape York Peninsula, QLD.
  Paratype(s) BMNH; EUQ; QM 2♂ ♀ (♀ with registration number T8475); SAMA; CSLAT; UBC
  Comment: 2♂ 4♀ paratypes designated, number of depositories given in original description not commensurate with remainder of paratypes not examined.
• Plociomerus geniculatus Motschulsky, V. von 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'îIle Ceylan. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3): 1-153 [81].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMM ♂, Colombo, Sri Lanka (as Colombo, Ceylan).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kerzhner, I.M. & Jansson, A. 1985. The type-specimens of Heteroptera described by V. Motschulsky. Annales Entomologici Fennici 51: 33-45 [40].
• Plociomera japonica Distant, W.L. 1883. First report on the Rhynchota collected in Japan by Mr. George Lewis. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1883: 413-443 pls XIIX-XX [437].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Nagasaki, Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 20: 251-285 [270].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Slater, J.A. & Zheng, L-Yi 1985. Revision of the genus Stigmatonotum Lindberg (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 16: 13-25 [21] (synonymy of Plociomera japonica and Stigmatonotum minutum)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Cairns, Cooktown, Iron Range, Kuranda, Maleny, Stradbroke Is., NT—Groote Eylandt, Leila Lagoon.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, nocturnal, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, up-on-plants, volant.

 

General References

Bergroth, E. 1921. On the types of the exotic Hemiptera Heteroptera described by V. Motschulsky. Revue Russe d'Entomologie 17: 96-109 [100] (description)

Cassis, G. 1993. A report on the Heteroptera and Dermaptera from the survey of Cape York Peninsula. pp. 109–123 in, Cape York Peninsula Scientific Expedition Wet Season 1992 Report. Volume 1. Fortitude Valley : The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland vii 295 pp. [114] (distribution, habitat)

Distant, W.L. 1918. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Homoptera: Appendix, Heteroptera: Appendix). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 7 viii 210 pp. [191] (description)

Hsiao, T.-Y. 1981. A Handbook for the Determination of the Chinese Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Tientsin : Nankai University Vol. 2 pp. 1-654. [164] (misidentification as Stigmatonotum rufipes Motschulsky)

Kirby, W.F. 1891. Catalogue of the described Hemiptera Heteroptera and Homoptera of Ceylon, based on the collection formed (chiefly at Pundaloya) by Mr. E. Ernest Green. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 24: 72-176 pls IV-VI [102] (Sri Lanka)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [167] (incertae sedis)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1970. The world Rhyparochrominae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) X. Further systematic changes. The Canadian Entomologist 102: 98-104 [103] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Plociomera japonica as junior synonym of Plociomerus rufipes Motschulsky, 1866)

Slater, J.A. 1979. Hemiptera, Heteroptera: Lygaeidae from Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Entomologica Scandinavica Suppl. 11: 1-27 [23] (Sri Lanka)

 

History of changes

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