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species Amorbus angustior (Westwood, 1842)

• Common name(s):  Red Gum-bush Bug
• Supplementary information:
  • Original description (VL)
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. arboreal, terrestrial, volant, herbivore, sap-feeder, temperate, hosts (Eucalyptus pauciflora [MYRTACEAE], Eucalyptus species*** [MYRTACEAE]); feed on juvenille foliage of Eucalyptus species
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (11):
  • Westwood. 1842. A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 2:3, 9 >> Note: Original description; LT (Distant, 1901e: 328 as ‘the unique type’): Australia; OXUM >> Physomerus angustior    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453533
  • Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum II:328   >> Note: Catalogued; Australia; taxonomic decision for new combination >> Amorbus angustior    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453532
  • Dohrn. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 25   >> Note: Catalogued; Australia >> Amorbus angustior
  • Mayr. 1866. In Grunow, Krempelhuber, Reichardt, Mettenius & Fenzl. Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wällerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil, Zweiter Band, 1. Abtheilung, B. Part 2. 87   >> Note: Synonymy; description; loc. Australia >> Amorbus angustior
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:40   >> Note: In key; as Amorbus angustus [lapsus] >> Amorbus angustior
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:41   >> Note: Catalogued; Australia >> Amorbus angustior
  • Stål. 1873. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 11(2):53   >> Note: Catalogued; Australia >> Amorbus angustior
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:24   >> Note: Catalogued; Australia >> Amorbus angustior
  • Distant. 1901. P.Z.S. 1901(1):328, 333   >> Note: Catalogued; generic placement; figure of adult habitus d.v. of the ‘unique type’ of Physomerus angustior Westwood, 1842, with detail of meso- and metapleuron [Pl. 29 figs 2, 2a]; compared with A. obscuricornis >> Amorbus angustior
  • Bergroth. 1913. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22:135   >> Note: Catalogued; Australia >> Amorbus angustior
  • Cassis & Gross. 2002. In Houston & Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 27.3B:102   >> Note: Catalogued; locs Australia; host plant >> Amorbus angustior
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality:
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  Unsexed adult
  • Location of type:  UMO Oxford

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