Species Arictus thoracoceras (Montrouzier, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aradus thoracoceras Montrouzier, P. 1864. Essai sur la faune entomologique de Kanala (Nouvelle-Calédonie) et description de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon ns 11: 46-257 [107].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (depository uncertain, type(s) probably lost), Kanala, New Caledonia (as Kanala, Nouvelle-Calédonie)
  Comment: type possibly lost.
• Aradus lugubris Boisduval, J.B.A. 1835. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. pp. 1-713 in no editor given (ed.). Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Paris : J. Tastu pp. 1-713. [642] [junior homonym of Aradus lugubris Fallén, 1807].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Vanikoro.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kormilev, N.A. & Froeschner, R.C. 1987. Flat bugs of the world: a synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography 5: 1-246 [105]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cooper Creek (near Daintree River), Iron Range, Upper Daintree River; Vanikoro.

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

Closed forest, cryptozoic, fungivore, terrestrial, tropical, under bark, volant.

 

General References

Blöte, H.C. 1965. Catalogue of the Aradidae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 75: 1-41 [26] (distribution)

Kormilev, N.A. 1953. Notes on Aradidae from the Eastern Hemisphere (Hemiptera). Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 333-346 [340] (distribution)

Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Aradidae in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide II. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 513-550 [542] (distribution)

Kormilev, N.A. 1967. Some Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Philippine, Bismarck and Solomon Islands. Entomologiske Meddelelser 35: 291-300 [299] (distribution)

Kormilev, N.A. 1971. Mezirinae of the Oriental Region and South Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 26: 1-165 [106, 107, 112] (description, type possibly lost)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1896. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome III. Hétéroptères Tingidae, Phymatidae, Aradidae, Hebridae, Hydrometridae, Henicocephalidae, Reduvidae, Saldidae, Apophilidae, Ceratocombidae, Cimicidae, Anthocoridae. Berlin : R. Friedländer & Fils 275 pp. [43] (catalogue)

Monteith, G.B. 1997. Revision of the Australian flat bugs of the subfamily Mezirinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aradidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(1): 1-169 [87, figs 34E,G,P,W, 35] (description, type possibly lost)

Usinger, R.L. & Matsuda, R. 1959. Classification of the Aradidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). London : British Museum of Natural History viii 410 pp. [314] (list)

 

History of changes

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