First records for two species of the genus Macroscytus

First records for two species of the genus Macroscytus
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae)
from New South Wales (Australia)
JERZY A. LIS 1, ALEKSANDRA RAKOWIECKA
Center for Biodiversity Studies, Department of Biosystematics
Opole University, Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole
1 e-mail: [email protected];
http://www.cydnidae.uni.opole.pl
Abstract. First state records for two Australian species of the genus Macroscytus Fieb. ,
i.e., M. glaberrimus, and M. monteithi, are provided.
Key words: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Cydnidae, Macroscytus, faunistics, new records,
Australia, New South Wales.
At present, twelve species of the genus Macroscytus Fieber are known
from Australia (Lis 1999, 2000, 2003). Recently, many new faunistic
data, including first state records, were presented for six Australian
Macroscytus species (Lis & Rakowiecka 2012).
The present note provides new state records for two species of the
genus.
Macroscytus glaberrimus J. A. Lis, 1999
Material examined
New South Wales: 1 ex., New South Wales, without precise data (Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Poland).
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Distribution
Up to date, recorded only from Queensland. New to New South
Wales.
Macroscytus monteithi J. A. Lis, 1999
Material examined
New South Wales: 1 ex., Australia, Cabramatta, 9.ii.66, M.I. Nikitin,
B.M. 1966-286, British Museum London (the Natural History Museum,
London, UK).
Distribution
Known only from Queensland, so far. New to New South Wales.
Acknowledgments
We want to thank Dr. M. Webb (the Natural History Museum in London) for
the loan of the material for our study.
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L i s J. A. (2000) A revision of the burrower-bug genus Macroscytus Fieber,
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L i s J. A. (2003) Macroscytus affinis sp. n. from Mindanao Island in the Philippines (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae). Polish Journal of Entomology 72: 215-218.
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