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Reduvius obsoletus Blanchard 1842

  • 1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), CCT La Plata, La Plata (Argentina) and División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s / n, B 1900 FWA, La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina) ceciliamelo @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar; pdellape @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar

Description

Reduvius obsoletus Blanchard, 1842

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Reduvius obsoletus Blanchard, 1842: 218, pl. 29, fig. 4.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Lectotype. Argentina • 1 ♂; 8484 34; Reduvius obsoletus; Patago patagonicus (Kirkaldy, 1909) dét. Bérenger J.-M. 1995;MNHN-EH-EH30829. [Designated by Bérenger et al. 1996]. Paralectotype. Argentina • 1 ♀; 8484 34; 243; Patago patagonicus (Kirkaldy, 1909) dét. Bérenger J-M 1995; MNHN-EH-EH30828.

DISTRIBUTION GIVEN BY BLANCHARD. — Rio Negro, Patagonia [Argentina].

D’ORBIGNY’S CATALOGUE NOTES. — Patagonia, staying in Patagones on the Rio Negro [Argentina], from January to September 1829. True bug. It inhabits the caves dug into the sandstone that forms the hillsides of the Rio Negro in Patagonia, attached to the roof or hidden in holes, rare.

VALID NAME. — Patago patagonicus Kirkaldy, 1909. Reduvius obsoletus Blanchard, 1842 is a primary homonym of Reduvius obsoletus Klug, 1830 (currently Oncocephalus obsoletus (Klug, 1830) (Bérenger et al. 1996).

Notes

Published as part of Melo, María Cecilia & Dellapé, Pablo M., 2026, The types of the species described by Émile Blanchard in d'Orbigny's (1835 - 1847) Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale, pp. 121-138 in Zoosystema 48 (5) on page 124, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2026v48a5, http://zenodo.org/record/18784382

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Blanchard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Reduviidae
Genus
Reduvius
Species
obsoletus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Reduvius obsoletus Blanchard, 1842 sec. Melo & Dellapé, 2026

References

  • KIRKALDY G. W. 1909. - Hemiptera: New and Old. No. 1. The Canadian Entomologist 41 (1): 30-32. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent4130-1
  • BERENGER J. M., MALDONADO CAPRILES J. & PLUOT-SIGWALT D. 1996. - Un nouveau genre de Reduviinae de Guyane et notes sur la sous-famille (Heteroptera, Reduviidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France 101 (3): 251-256.