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Lygaeoidea Species File
Species

Praetorblissus gigas Slater, 1966

CollectionObject 1957315; 1bb918e4-1b6b-4c05-be32-15eaa4d0c97d, NMNH 69070: Praetorblissus gigas HOLOTYPE (NMNH) - (CC BY-NC 3.0) - Photo by Pablo M. Dellapé with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1957315; 1bb918e4-1b6b-4c05-be32-15eaa4d0c97d, NMNH 69070: Praetorblissus gigas HOLOTYPE (NMNH) - (CC BY-NC 3.0) - Photo by Pablo M. Dellapé with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1957315; 1bb918e4-1b6b-4c05-be32-15eaa4d0c97d, NMNH 69070: Praetorblissus gigas - Holotype Labels (NMNH) - (CC BY-NC 3.0) - Photo by Pablo M. Dellapé with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (4)

  • Praetorblissus gigas Slater, 1966: 3-9.

    Holotype; NMNH 69070; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH); Peru, Huanuco, 19-XI-1941

  • Praetorblissus gigas Slater, 1966 in Slater & O'Donnell, 1995: 60.
  • Praetorblissus gigas Slater, 1966 in Cervantes & Brailovsky, 2013: 200.
  • Praetorblissus gigas Slater, 1966 in Henry & Dellapé, 2024: 21, 23.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Slater, J.A. (1966) New micropterous Blissinae from South America (Hem.Lyg.). U. Conn. Occ. Papers Sci. Ser. l: l: 1(1), 3–11.
  • Slater, J.A. & O'Donnell, J.E. (1995) In A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the world. New York Entomological Society, New York. 410 pp.
  • Cervantes, L. & Brailovsky, H. (2013) First record of Praetorblissus from Mexico (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Blissidae), with the description of a new species associated with bamboo. 3683(2), 197–200.
  • Henry, T.J. & Dellapé, P.M. (2024) Synopsis of the New World Blissid Genera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Blissidae): Redescriptions of Known Genera, Descriptions of Three New Genera, New Synonymies, New Combinations, Notes on Phylogeny, and a Revised Key to the Genera. Journal of the International Heteropterist' Society, 1(1), 1–32.

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