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Lygaeoidea Species File
Species

Australocoris kurandae (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Australocoris kurandae (Kirkaldy, 1907): Germalus kurandae. Lectotype-dorsal habitus. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Australocoris kurandae (Kirkaldy, 1907): Germalus kurandae. Lectotype-dorsal habitus. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Australocoris linearis (Distant, 1918) now Australocoris kurandae (Kirkaldy, 1907): Scopiastes linearis. Lectotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Germalus kurandae Kirkaldy, 1907
  • Scopiastes linearis Distant, 1918

    Lectotype; female; 3edbe7bd-235d-43a5-980c-15b602584bf4; Australia: Kuranda (N. Queensland)

  • Australocoris kurandae (Kirkaldy, 1907) in Malipatil, 2012: 77-78, 79-81.
  • Germalus linearis (unavailable or invalid, linked to Scopiastes linearis Distant, 1918)

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Kirkaldy, G.W. (1907) Memoir on a few Heteropterous Hemiptera from eastern Australia. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W.
  • Distant, W.L. (1918) Contributions to a further knowledge of the Rhynchotal family Lygaeidae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 9(2), 173–179,257–270,416–424,486–492.
  • Scudder, G.G.E. (1963) A revision of the genus Astacops. Pacif. Insects., 5, 315–415.
  • 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.
  • Scudder, G.G.E. (1967) Rhyparochrominae types in the British Museum (Natural History) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.). Bull. Brit. Mus. Entomol., 20, 253–285.
  • 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.
  • Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. (2002) Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). Vol. 27.3B, pp. xiv 737.
  • Malipatil, M.B. (2012) Australocorinae, a new subfamily of Geocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea) from Australia, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species. 3554, 75–88.

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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