Assassin Bug Coranus sydnicus (Mayr, 1866)
Fauna Portal species: 975
Coranus sydnicus, dorsal (HBI N306-6; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2021)
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(after Malipatil 1986): Generally fuscous with dense short greyish pubescence in addition to grey hair; antennae testaceous, base of corium margin, longitudinal lines above and below head and between and behind ocelli, median carina on scutellum, connexivum with posterior half of each segment pale or testaceous; abdomen above black, below fuscous black, pale spots all over; femora with extreme apices dirty testaceous, with fascia and longitudinal lines fuscous, tibia and tarsi dirty testaceous, tibia with fusous base, a subbasal pale ring, remainder dirty testaceous; last tarsal segment fuscous; membrane uniformly fuscous.
Status
- native
Linnean Type
Type of Colliocoris griseus var. sydnicus cannot be found and is possibly lost (Malipatil 1986)
Australia
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Victoria
- Western Australia
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