Species Carenotus louthensis McMah & Cassis, 2024

Museums

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• Carenotus louthensis McMah, A. & Cassis, G. 2024. Ant mimicry in Australian plant bugs: a new genus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Austromirini: Carenotus gen. nov.), eight new species, myrmecomorphic traits, host plants and distribution. Invertebrate Systematics 38: 1-60 [47, Fig. 2, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 13].
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  Type data:

   Holotype QM UNSW_ENT 00012223 ♂, 91 km N of Quilpie, QLD [25.99847°S, 144.4098°E].
  Paratype(s) QM UNSW_ENT 00013067–UNSW_ENT 00013073, UNSW_ENT 00013075–UNSW_ENT 00013083, UNSW_ENT 00013127 16♂, 34 km SW Bourke toward Louth, NSW [30.30001°S, 145.6667°E]; AM UNSW_ENT 00012425–UNSW_ENT 00012427 3♂, 9 km WSW of Adavale, QLD [25.91094°S, 144.5143°E]; numerous specimens, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Mulga Lands (ML), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Ecological Descriptors

Herbivore (associated flora: Eremophila sturtii [SCROPHULARIACEAE]; Eremophila mitchellii [SCROPHULARIACEAE]).

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