Subspecies Cermatulus nasalis nasalis (Westwood, 1837)

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Subspecies Cermatulus nasalis nasalis (Westwood, 1837)

Aelia nasalis Westwood, J.O. 1837. A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the Collection of the Rev. F.W. Hope and Descriptions of the new Species of Scutelleridae. Part I. London : J.C. Bridgewater 46 pp. [32].
Type data:
Syntype(s) OUM Hem. 158 5 specimens, Melville Is., NT; Australia (as New Holland).
Asopus nummularis Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [258, 276].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMB sex unknown (depository uncertain), TAS (as Vandiemensland).
Rhaphigaster pentatomoides 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. [370].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 4 specimens, Moreton Bay, QLD; TAS; Australia (no exact locality); New Zealand.
Asopus binotatus Walker, F. 1867. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous Hemiptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-240. [144].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, locality unknown.
Type locality references:
Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 2002. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Vol. 27.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiv 737 pp. [443] (original type locality as 'Brazil'; in error).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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. [106] (synonymy of Asopus nummularis)
Butler, A.G. 1874. Insects. II. pp. 25-52 in Richardson, J. & Grey, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. "Erebus & Terror". London : E.W. Janson. [pl. 7 fig. 4] (synonymy of Rhaphigaster pentatomoides)
Distant, W.L. 1900. Rhynchotal notes. V. Heteroptera: Asopinae and Tessaratominae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 6: 55-64 [55] (synonymy of Rhaphigaster pentatomoides and Asopus binotatus)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Brisbane, Bunya Mountains, Townsville, Yandina, NSW—Dorrigo, Mullaley, VIC—Dobie, Mt Macedon, TAS—Furneaus Is., Magnet, Swansea, SA—Adelaide, Ardrossan, Corny Point, Edwardtown, Blackwood, Belair National Park, Flinders Is., Fowlers Bay, Glen Stuart, Klemzig, Lucindale, Meningie, Mitcham, Paney Station, Underdale, Warradale, Windsor, WA—Applecross, Busselton, Corackerup Creek, Geraldton, Mandurah, Ravensthorpe, Star Swamp Beach, Toompup, Wongan Hills.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder (host(s): Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) [NYMPHALIDAE] Monarch; Caliroa cerasi (Linnaeus, 1758) [TENTHREDINIDAE] Pear Slug, Cherry Slug; Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766) [NOCTUIDAE]; Mythimna separata (Walker, 1865) [NOCTUIDAE]; Persectania aversa (Walker, 1856) [NOCTUIDAE]; Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1808) [NOCTUIDAE]; Tortrix excessana (Walker, 1863) [TORTRICIDAE]; Crambus vittellus Dbld., 1843 [PYRALIDAE]; Paropsis charybdis Stål, 1860 [CHRYSOMELIDAE]; Epiphyas postvittana (Walker, 1863) [TORTRICIDAE]; Melampsalta cruentata (Fabricius, 1775) [CICADIDAE]; Asaphodes megaspilata (Walker, 1862) [GEOMETRIDAE]; Venusia verriculata (R.Feld., 1875) [GEOMETRIDAE]; Vanessa gonerilla (Fabr., 1775) [NYMPHALIDAE]; Gonipterus scutellatus Gyllenhal, 1833 [CURCULIONIDAE]), predator, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Polyphagous predator of (mainly) lepidopterous larvae, collected on Eucalyptus species (MYRTACEAE), Leptospermum scoparium (MYRTACEAE) and Metrisoderos scandens (MYRTACEAE), collected on shrubs and tussocks, Asolcus species (Scelionidae: Hymenoptera) parasite.