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Lygaeoidea Species File
Species

Blissus breviusculus Barber, 1937

CollectionObject 1594800; 8cfc8fbb-b43b-4290-a50b-57ae8b325c40: Blissus breviusculus 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 1594800; 8cfc8fbb-b43b-4290-a50b-57ae8b325c40: Blissus breviusculus 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 1594800; 8cfc8fbb-b43b-4290-a50b-57ae8b325c40: Blissus breviusculus - 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)

  • Blissus breviusculus Barber, 1937

    Holotype; male; 8cfc8fbb-b43b-4290-a50b-57ae8b325c40; United States: Wareham

  • Blissus breviusculus Barber, 1937 in Torre-Bueno, 1946
  • Blissus breviusculus Barber, 1937 in Slater, 1964: 439.
  • Blissus breviusculus Barber, 1937 in Ashlock & Slater, 1988: 173.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Barber, H.G. (1937) Descriptions of six new species of Blissus (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
  • 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.
  • 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

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1001