Barrow Island Meschia Meschia barrowensis Malipatil, 2014
Fauna Portal species: 1022Diagnosis
(after Malipatil 2014): Meschia barrowensis can be distinguished from the only other Australia species, M. woodwardi, by the generally uniformly pale ochraceous coloured body, antennae and legs, the relatively less gibbous posterior lobe of the pronotum, and by the fully covered abdominal connexivum.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
Malipatil MB (2014): Meschiidae, a new family of Lygaeoidea ((Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from India and Australia, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species. Zootaxa. 3815: 233 - 248DOI
Malipatil MB, Yeshwanth HM, Kondorosy E (2021): Taxonomic position of Heissothignus and review of the species of Meschia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Meschiidae). Zootaxa. 5032: 283 - 289DOI
Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Myriapoda