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Lygaeus maculatus Dallas

Description

Lygaeus maculatus Dallas

Lygaeus maculatus Dallas, 1852: 545 –546.

Graptostethus maculatus (Dallas); Distant, 1901: 537; Slater, 1964: 53. New placement: Tropidothorax maculatus (Dallas), comb. nov.

Material examined. Syntype ɗ, with the following labels: 1. Museum circular redmargined label with “ TYPE ” pr; 2. “N. India ” hwr, on reverse “48. 134” hwr [BMNH register information for 1848 134 reads: “170 Rhynchota N. India (Almorah) Bought of Mr Warwick Part of Boyes collection - a selection £45”]; 3. “108. Lygaeus maculatus,” pr (cut out from the catalogue of Walker, 1872).

Syntype Ψ, with the following labels: 1. “E. Ind.” hwr, on reverse “43. 43.” hwr; 2. “ Lygaeus ” pr, “ maculatus ” hwr, “Walker’s catal.” pr.

Remarks. Originally described from “a. N. India. From Capt. Boys’s Collection.” and “b. India. From Archdeacon Clerk’s Collection.”. This species has a similar structure of the pronotum and scutellum to Tropidothorax species (see Lygaeus simla Distant) and is very similar to T. autolycus (Distant), but the latter species is slightly larger and has some differences in coloration.

Notes

Published as part of Kondorosy, El Ő D, Lyal, Christopher Henry Coutts & Webb, Michael Donald, 2006, Nomenclatorial changes in Oriental Lygaeinae seed bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 1383 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273666

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Dallas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Lygaeidae
Genus
Lygaeus
Species
maculatus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Dallas, W. S. (1852) List of the specimens of Hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. Taylor and Francis Inc., London, 369 - 592.
  • Distant, W. L. (1901) Rhynchotal notes. X. Heteroptera: Fam. Lygaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7), 7, 531 - 541.
  • Slater, J. A. (1964) A catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the world. University of Connecticut, Storrs. Vol. I. 1 - 778.
  • Walker, F. (1872) Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. London. Part V. 202 pp.