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Patapius spinosus

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, I- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy & La Specola' Museum, Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, I- 50125, Via Romana 17, Florence, Italy.
  • 2. Faculty of Science, Lebanese University, Hadath, Beirut, Lebanon

Description

Patapius spinosus (Rossi, 1790)

Leptopus echinops Dufour: Puton (1881: 128), “Ramleh”.

Patapius spinosus (Rossi): Lindberg (1922: 18), “ Libanon, 1000 m.”, “ Beirut, auf den Flugsandhügeln”; Lindskog (1995: 139), “ Lebanon ”, probable quotation of Lindberg (1922); Matocq & Azar (2023: 3), generic quotation of Aukema (2024).

General distribution. This is a Centralasiatic-Mediterranean species, introduced into USA, Chile, and Japan (Lindskog 1995, Aukema et al. 2013, Yamazaki & Sugiura 2014, Vinokurov & Kment 2015).

Remarks. Unmistakable species of which no particular identification problems are suspected.

Notes

Published as part of Cianferoni, Fabio & Dia, Aref, 2025, Annotated catalogue and checklist of Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Lebanon, with new records, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 5725 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17869986

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D587B7FFA3FFBEF3AFFBF1C6B3FA33

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5725.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/17869986 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFECFFCFFF86FF9BF338FFA9C256FFB1 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/5CED4B20-6D8A-44CC-B7AF-C1A9EE710EC2 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03D587B7FFA3FFBEF3AFFBF1C6B3FA33 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/308902161 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313510/taxon/03D587B7FFA3FFBEF3AFFBF1C6B3FA33.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Rossi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Leptopodidae
Genus
Patapius
Species
spinosus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Patapius spinosus (Rossi, 1790) sec. Cianferoni & Dia, 2025

References

  • Puton, A. (1881) Enumeration des Hemipteres recoltes en Syrie par M. Abeille de Perrin avec la description des especes nouvelles. Mittheilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft, 6 (3), 119-129.
  • Lindberg, H. (1922) Verzeichnis der von John Sahlberg und Uunio Saalas in den Mittelmeergebieten gesammelten semiaquatilen und aquatilen Heteropteren. Notulae Entomologicae, 2, 15-19 + 46 - 49.
  • Lindskog, P. (1995) Infraorder Leptopodomorpha. In: Aukema, B. & Rieger, C. (Eds.), Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 1. Enicocephalomorpha, Dispocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Wageningen, pp. 115-141.
  • Matocq, A. & Azar, D. (2023) Preliminary inventory of terrestrial Heteroptera from Lebanon (Hemiptera: Leptopodomorpha, Cimicomorpha and Pentatomomorpha). Zootaxa, 5230 (1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5230.1.1
  • Aukema, B. (2024) Catalogue of the Palaearctic Heteroptera. Available from: https://catpalhet.linnaeus.naturalis.nl/ (accessed 13 September 2024)
  • Aukema, B., Rieger, C. & Rabitsch, W. (2013) Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 6. Supplement. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Ede, 629 pp.
  • Vinokurov, N. N. & Kment, P. (2015) Contribution to the faunistics of shore bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha) in the Palaearctic Region and the Himalayas. Zootaxa, 4028 (3), 367-387. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4028.3.3