Biology:Craspedophysa monteithi

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Short description: Species of true bug


Craspedophysa monteithi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
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Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Craspedophysa

Burckhardt, 2009
Species:
C. monteithi
Binomial name
Craspedophysa monteithi
Burckhardt, 2009

Craspedophysa monteithi is a moss bug, the only confirmed, extant species in the genus Craspedophysa.[1] Craspedophysa monteithi is found in northern Queensland, Australia.[2] It lacks the ancestral cephalic areolae (raised spots on the head) found in some Peloridiidae.[3]

Notes

  1. (EOL)
  2. (Burckhardt, 2009)
  3. (Spangenberg, 2013)

References

  • Burckhardt, Daniel (2009). "Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Gondwanan moss bugs or Peloridiidae (Hemiptera, Coleorrhyncha)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 56 (2): 173–235. doi:10.1002/mmnd.200900019. 
  • Spangenberg, Rico (2013). "The cephalic morphology of the Gondwanan key taxon Hackeriella (Coleorrhyncha, Hemiptera)". Arthropod Structure & Development 42 (4): 315–337. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2013.03.007. 

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