Species Tasmanicola truganinae Slater & Sweet, 1970
- Tasmanicola truganinae Slater, J.A. & Sweet, M.H. 1970. The systematics and ecology of new genera and species of primitive Stygnocorini from South Africa, Madagascar and Tasmania (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 20: 257-292 [290].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Frankford, TAS.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
QLD—Atherton, Lamington National Park, Millaa Milla, NSW—Barrington Tops, Ebor, TAS—Weldborough.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, diurnal, granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, tropical, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Ex moss, ex Nothofagus forest, wing polymorphism (macropterous, micropterous).
General References
Slater, J.A. 1975. On the biology and zoogeography of Australian Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with special reference to the southwest fauna. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 14: 47-64 [58] (wing polymorphism)
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. [128] (catalogue)
History of changes
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| 06-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED |