Assassin Bug Coranus aridellus Malipatil, 1986
Fauna Portal species: 973
Coranus aridellus male, dorsal (HBI N18362-1; Western Australia, Barrow Island)
Image: https://www.padil.gov.au/barrow-island/pest/142172
Fauna Portal Image No. 973Diagnosis
(after Malipatil 1986): Generally fuscous; most of scutellum particularly Y-shaped carina, broad areas on pronotal posterior lobe, median line on head behind ocelli, area surrounding ocelli, areas on legs particularly femora and tibia, lateral areas of abdominal venter yellow; connexivum with anterior one third of each segment blackish; disc of abdominal venter fuscous with yellow spots.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1986): Revision of Australian Coranus Curtis (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae). The Beagle, Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 3: 29 - 50