Species Thunbergia augur (Stål, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lygaeus augur Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera nova vel minus cognita. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 5: 163-188 [187].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHRM ♀, Moreton Bay, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) NHRM ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Slater, A. 1978. Taxonomic notes on Lygaeinae from Australia and neighboring areas (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 71: 854-858 [855].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Mt Tamborine, Rockhampton, Stanthorpe, NSW—Tweed River.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, granivore (associated flora: Parsonsia straminea (R.Br.) F.Muell. [APOCYNACEAE] Common Silkpod; Araujia hortorum E.Fourn. [ASCLEPIADACEAE] Mothvine), gregarious, subtropical, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Bergroth, E. 1912. New or little known Hemiptera, chiefly from Australia, in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31: 343-348 [344] (description)

Distant, W.L. 1918. Contributions to a further knowledge of the Rhynchotal Family Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 2: 173-179, 257-270, 416-424, 486-492 [177] (description)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [152] (catalogue)

Slater, A. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Lygaeinae of Australia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52: 301-481 [372] (description)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [40] (catalogue)

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. [27] (catalogue)

Walker, F. 1872. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-202. [62] (list)

 

History of changes

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