Australian Biological Resources Study

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Species Diaphyta pulchra (Dallas, 1851)

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Species Diaphyta pulchra (Dallas, 1851)

  • Cuspicona pulchra Dallas, W.S. 1851. List of the Specimens of Hemipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Richard Taylor Part 1 368 pp. XI pls [298].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia (as New Holland).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Mt Lamington, NSW—Bega, Clarence River, Pearl Beach, SA—Mallaga Falls.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore (associated flora: Casuarina torulosa Aiton [CASUARINACEAE]), sap-feeder, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Distant, W.L. 1900. Rhynchotal notes. IV. Heteroptera: Pentatominae (part). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 5: 386-397, 420-435 [422] (list)

Gross, G.F. 1976. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera. Adelaide : A.B. James Vol. 2 251-501 pp. [487, 490, fig. 224] (key, description, habitus)

Leston, D. 1955. Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera): new species and synonymy. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 8: 698-704 [704] (type species)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1893. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome I. Hétéroptères Pentatomidae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez xi 286 pp. [180] (catalogue)

McDonald, F.J.D. 2001. Two new species of Diaphyta Bergroth with notes on the genus (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 40: 17-22 [17, 19] (key, diagnosis, distribution)

Walker, F. 1867. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 241-417 [386] (list)