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Species

Toonglasa forficuloides Distant, 1893

CollectionObject 1593497; 9f04a65c-7894-4f9a-a5d2-7b033e55c779: Toonglasa forficuloides. Holotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1593497; 9f04a65c-7894-4f9a-a5d2-7b033e55c779: Toonglasa forficuloides. Holotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (6)

  • Toonglasa forficuloides Distant, 1893: 392.

    Holotype; male; 9f04a65c-7894-4f9a-a5d2-7b033e55c779; Mexico: Omiltemi, Guerrero

  • Toonglasa forficuloides Distant, 1893 in Lethierry & Severin, 1894
  • Toonglasa forficuloides Distant, 1893 in Baez Santacruz, Brailovsky & Robledo, 2017: 1, 10.
  • Toonglasa forficuloides Distant, 1893 in Henry & Dellapé, 2024: 26, 28.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Distant, W.L. (1893) Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Vol. 1. Vol. I. Biol. cent.-amer. London (v)-xx, i -xx + 329–462.
  • Lethierry, L.F. & Severin, G. (1894) General catalogue of the Hemiptera. Vol. II. Heteropteres. General catalogue of the Hemiptera. Vol. II. Heteropteres. Brussels: F. Hayez, Imprimeur de l'Academie Royale de Belgique., II.
  • Slater, J.A. (1964) A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 2 Vols. U. Connecticut. Storrs. 1688 pp. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World.
  • Slater, J.A. & Brailovsky, H. (1983) Review of the Neotropical genus Toonglasa (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. America., 76, 523–535.
  • Baez Santacruz, J., Brailovsky, H. & Robledo, L.Q. (2017) Immature stages of three species of Blissidae from Mexico (Heteroptera: Lygaeoideae). 52(1), 53–63 (1–10).
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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