Ochterus australicus Jaczewski, 1934

Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 23-64 : 34

Ochterus australicus Jaczewski, 1934

Ochterus marginatus (misidentification): DISTANT (1920): 164 (specimen from Gondé, see JACZEWSKI 1934: 609).

Ochterus australicus Jaczewski, 1934: 607 –610 (description, differential diagnosis, illustration) (partim, see Note). LECTOTYPE: (designated by BAEHR 1990b: 452), New Caledonia (BMNH).

Ochterus australicus (partim): KORMILEV (1971): 434, 439–442 (partim; redescription based on specimens from Queensland:North Stradbroke Island, illustrations).

Ochterus australicus : JACZEWSKI (1935): 482 (key to species); BAEHR (1989): 113, 114‒116, 118 (key to species, redescription, illustrations); BAEHR (1990b): 452 –456, 459, 461 (key to species, redescription, illustrations, lectotype designation); CASSIS & GROSS (1995): 260 (catalogue); ANDERSEN & WEIR (2004): 267 –270, 335 (key to species, illustrations, checklist); CHEN et al. (2005): 413 (checklist); DAMGAARD & ZETTEL (2014): 227, 236 (checklist).

Material examined. AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES: Bellinger River N.P., Darkwood Rd., W of Darkwood Bridge, 30°26.80′S 152°37.12′E, 95 m a.s.l., 27.xi.2014, 2, D. Rédei & Q. Xie lgt., D. Rédei 2016 det., P. Kment revid. ( NMPC).

Distribution. Australian Region: Australia: New South Wales ( KORMILEV 1971, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), Northern Territory ( BAEHR 1990b), Queensland ( KORMILEV 1971; BAEHR 1989, 1990b; ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), South Australia ( KORMILEV 1971, BAEHR 1989, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), Tasmania ( MANCINI 1939a, BAEHR 1990 b, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), Victoria ( BAEHR 1990 b, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), Western Australia ( KORMILEV 1971, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004); New Caledonia ( DISTANT 1920, as O. marginatus ; JACZEWSKI 1934; KORMILEV 1971; BAEHR 1990b; ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004); Papua New Guinea ( MANCINI 1939a, BAEHR 1990b); Vanuatu (as New Hebrides) (JACZEW- SKI 1934; BAEHR 1989, 1990b; ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004); Solomon Islands ( ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004): Choiseul ( KORMILEV 1971), Guadalcanal ( KORMILEV 1971, BAEHR 1990b), San Cristobal ( KORMILEV 1971).

Note. All the syntypes of O. australicus from Australia ( JACZEWSKI 1934) belong to O. eurythorax (see BAEHR 1990b). Several of KORMILEV’ s (1971) records from Victoria, southeastern Queensland, the Cape York Peninsula, Indonesia (Papua, West Papua), Papua New Guinea, and all records from Tasmania actually refer to other species ( BAEHR 1989).