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Lygaeoidea Species File
Species

Cattarus formicarius (Distant, 1893)

CollectionObject 1594987; 00df175c-2665-4f04-bb69-8a5dc8e00423: Phaeax formicarius. Lectotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1594987; 00df175c-2665-4f04-bb69-8a5dc8e00423: Phaeax formicarius. Lectotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1594988; f77e98d0-0b0a-47b3-a85a-b0de74c9189e: Phaeax formicarius. Paralectotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Phaeax formicarius Distant, 1893

    Lectotype; male; 00df175c-2665-4f04-bb69-8a5dc8e00423; Panama: V. de Chiriqui

  • Phaeax formicarius Distant, 1893 in Lethierry & Severin, 1894
  • Cattarus formicarius (Distant, 1893) in Slater & Henry, 1999: 310-312.
  • Cattarus formicarius (Distant, 1893) in Henry, 2013: 398.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • 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.
  • Hussey (1929)
  • Woodward, T.E. (1962) Phaeax Distant transferred from Pyrrhocoridae (Larginae) to Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B): 31(9-10), 122–126.
  • 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. & Henry, T.J. (1999) NOTES ON AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW PAMPHANTINAE, INCLUDING FOUR NEW SPECIES OF CATTARUS AND A REMARKABLE NEW MYRMECOMORPHIC GENUS AND SPECIES (HETEROPTERA: LYGAEOIDEA: GEOCORIDAE). 107(4), 304–330.
  • Henry, T.J. (2013) Cymapamphantus valentineorum, a new genus and species of Pamphantinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae) from the British Virgin Islands, with a checklist of the species and keys to the tribes and genera of the subfamily. 115(4), 392–401.

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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