Species Zygocoris tindalei Gross, 1962

Museums

Regional Maps

• Zygocoris tindalei Gross, G.F. 1962. Aberrant Australian brachypterous myodochine bugs (Lygaeidae: Rhyparochrominae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 371-396 pls 14-16 [381].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I20124 ♂, Mt Lofty Ranges, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA I20124-I20126 8 specimens.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Flightless, granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, temperate, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with ants; Camponotus sp. and Iridomyrmex sp. [Formicidae].

General References

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1065] (catalogue)

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