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Lygaeoidea Species File
Species

Blissus mixtus Barber, 1937

CollectionObject 1594801; bec8b079-a926-40aa-8257-104a6e46df40: Blissus mixtus 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 1594801; bec8b079-a926-40aa-8257-104a6e46df40: Blissus mixtus 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 1594801; bec8b079-a926-40aa-8257-104a6e46df40: Blissus mixtus - 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 (9)

  • Blissus leucopterus Van Duzee, 1917
  • Blissus leucopterus Van Duzee, 1917 (unavailable or invalid, linked to Blissus mixtus Barber, 1937)
  • Blissus mixtus Barber, 1937 in Ashlock & Slater, 1988: 175.
  • Blissus mixus (unavailable or invalid, linked to Blissus mixtus Barber, 1937)

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1917) Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. In University of California Publications in Entomology. Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press. 902 pp.
  • Barber, H.G. (1937) Descriptions of six new species of Blissus (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
  • Prendergast, B. (1943) Observations on the sand dune chinch bug Blissus mixtus Barber (Lygaeidae Hemiptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 19(2), 59–60.
  • de la Torre-Bueno, J.R. (1946) A synopsis of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of America north of Mexico. III. Family XI. Lygaeidae. Ent. amer., 26, 1–141.
  • Drake, C.J. (1951) New American chinch bugs (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 41, 319–323.
  • 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.
  • Ashlock, P.D. & Slater, A. (1988) Family Lygaeidae Schilling, 1829 (= Infericornes Amyot and Serville, 1843< Myodochidae Kirkaldy, 1899< Geocoridae Kirkaldy, 1902). In Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill Publ., Leiden and New York. pp. 167–245.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023