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Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832)

Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).
Belonochilus mexicanus Distant, 1893 now Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832): Belonochilus mexicanus. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (Otu).

Nomenclature (39)

  • Lygaeus numenius Say, 1832
  • Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832) in Uhler, 1871
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  • Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832) in Pérez-Gómez, Sánchez & Baena, 2020: 13, 14.
  • Belonochilus mexicanus (unavailable or invalid, linked to Lygaeus numenius Say, 1832)

Nomenclature references (37)

  • 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.
  • Baena, M. & Torres, J.L. (2012) Nuevos datos sobre heterópteros exóticos en España y Francia: Tempyra biguttula Stål, 1874, Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832) y Zelus renardii (Kolenati, 1856) (Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae, Orsillidae, Reduviidae). 36(3-4), 351–360.
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  • Barber, H.G. (1923) Family Lygaeidae: In Britton--guide to the insects of Connecticut: Pt. IV. The Hemiptera or sucking insects of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. pp.
  • Barber, H.G. (1949) Some synonyms in the family Lygaeidae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 51, 273–276.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1926) Heteroptera or true bugs of eastern North America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana & Florida. Heteroptera or true bugs of eastern North America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana & Florida. Indianapolis: Nature Publishing Co., 1116 pp.
  • Britton, W.E. (1938) Additions to the check-list of the insects of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. N.
  • Carapezza, A. & Cusimano, C. (2014) Heteroptera in the aeroplancton of Palermo town, with two new records for Italy (Hemiptera Heteroptera). Naturalista Sicil. Ser., S. IV, XXXVIII(2), 367–380.
  • Costas, M., Vázques, M.A. & López, T. (2015) Otras dos especies alóctonas presentes en la Comunidad de Madrid: Arocatus longiceps Stål, 1872 y Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832) (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae, Orsillidae). 15(1), 97–90.
  • de la Torre-Bueno, J.R. (1940) Biological notes on Arizona Heteroptera. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 35, 157.
  • 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.
  • Distant, W.L. (1893) Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Vol. 1. Vol. I. Biol. cent.-amer. London (v)-xx, i -xx + 329–462.
  • Froeschner, R.C. (1944) Contributions to a synopsis of the Hemiptera of Missouri, Pt.III. Amer. Midl. Nat., 31(3), 638–683.
  • Gessé, F., Ribes, J. & Goula, M. (2009) Belonochilus numenius, the sycamore seed bug, new record for the Iberian fauna. 62(1), 121–123.
  • Heidemann, O. (1902) Notes on Belonochilus numenius Say. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
  • Heidemann, O. (1911) Some remarks on the eggs of North American species of Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
  • Kment, P. & Cunev, J. (2013) First record of the alien seed bug Belonochilus numenius (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) in Slovakia. 25(2), 15–20.
  • Küchler, S. & Strauß, G. (2010) Belonochilus numenius (SAY, 1832) (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) – bald auch in Mitteleuropa? 11, 27–33.
  • 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.
  • Martinović, M., Gjeldum, A. & Koren, T. (2019) Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1832) (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), a new invasive species in Croatia. 29(2), 479–482.
  • Matocq, A. (2008) Présence en France et en Corse d’un Hétéroptère nord-américain, Belonochilus numenius (Say, 1831) (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae, Orsillinae). 113(4), 533–534.
  • Nigmann, U. & Stahmer, A. (2019) Further new records of Belonochilus numenius (SAY, 1831) (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) in Germany, among others in NRW. 56, 27–29.
  • Protić, L. & Šeat, J. (2016) First records of the alien sycamore seed bug Belonochilus numenius in Serbia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). 21, 13–19.
  • Pérez-Gómez, Á., Sánchez, Í. & Baena, M. (2020) Nuevos registros de hemípteros (Insecta: Hemiptera) alóctonos en Andalucía (sur de España). 14, 9–19.
  • Say, T. (1832) Descriptions of new species of Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America. Descriptions of new species of Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America. New Harmony Indiana., 39 pp.
  • Scudder, G.G.E. (2012) Additional provincial and state records for Heteroptera (Hemiptera) in Canada and the United States. 109, 55–69.
  • Slater, J.A. (1964) A catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the world. 1, 1–778.
  • Srebrova, K., Nacheski, S. & Sotirovski, K. (2019) Widespread Distribution of the Sycamore Seed Bug Belonochilus numenius (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) Throughout the Republic of North Macedonia. 2, 145–149.
  • Sweet, M.H. (1960) The seed bugs: a contribution of the feeding habits of the Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Ann. ent. Soc. Amer., 53, 317–321.
  • Swiatoniowska, M., Ogorzalek, A., Golas, A., Michalik, A. & Szklarzewicz, T. (2013) Ultrastructure, distribution, and transovarial transmission of symbiotic microorganisms in Nysius ericae and Nithecus jacobaeae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae: Orsillinae). 250, 325–332.
  • Uhler, P.R. (1871) Notices of some Heteroptera in the collection of Dr. T. W. Harris. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 14, 93–109.
  • Uhler, P.R. (1876) List of Hemiptera of the region west of the Mississippi River, including those collected during the Hayden explorations of 1873. Bull. U. S. geol. geog. Surv. Terr., 1, 269–361.
  • Uhler, P.R. (1878) Notices of the Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the late T. W. Harris, M. D. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.
  • Usinger, R.L. (1941) The present status and synonymy of some Orsilline species (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 36, 129–132.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1894) A list of the Hemiptera of Buffalo and vicinity. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1909) Observations on some Hemiptera taken in Florida in the spring of 1908. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 9, 149–230.
  • 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.
  • Walker, F. (1872) Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. London: Part V., 151–152.

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