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Tropidothorax elegans (Distant, 1883)

CollectionObject 1593440; 735bebae-f399-45d3-91f3-e2220a7822f5: Melanospilus elegans. Paralectotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1593440; 735bebae-f399-45d3-91f3-e2220a7822f5: Melanospilus elegans. Paralectotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1593441; 55f5be01-97ca-42d4-a846-23814a2b092c: Melanospilus elegans. Lectotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (13)

  • Melanospilus elegans Distant, 1883: 428, 429.

    Lectotype; male; 55f5be01-97ca-42d4-a846-23814a2b092c; Japan

  • Melanospilus elegans Distant, 1883 in Reuter, 1885
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  • Melanospilus elegans Distant, 1883 in Péricart, 1999: 80.
  • Tropidothorax elegans (Distant, 1883) in Péricart, 2001: 55.

Nomenclature references (13)

  • Distant, W.L. (1883) First report on the Rhynchota collected in Japan by Mr. George Lewis. Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond.
  • Esaki, T. (1926) Verzeichniss der Hemiptera-Heteroptera der insel Formosa. Ann. hist.-nat. Mus. hung., 24, 136–189.
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  • Horváth, G. (1899) Remarques synonymiques sur les Hemipteres Palearctiques. Rev. Ent., Caen.
  • Horváth, G. (1901) Hemiptera: In: Zoologische Ergebnisse der dritten Asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy. In: Zoologische Ergebnisse der dritten Asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy. Budapest and Leipzig: Hornyanszky Viktor and Karl. W. Hiersemann.
  • Oshanin, V.T. (1912) Katalog der palaarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera-Auchenorhyncha & Psylloideae). Katalog der palaarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera-Auchenorhyncha & Psylloideae). Berlin: xvi +, 187 pp.
  • Puton, J.B.A. (1899) Catalogue des Hemipteres (Heteropteres, Cicadines & Psyllides) de la faune palearctique. 4th ed. Catalogue des Hemipteres (Heteropteres, Cicadines & Psyllides) de la faune palearctique.
  • Péricart, J. (1999) Reconnaissance de types de divers Lygaeidae et Berytidae est-paléarctiques, afrotropicaux et orientaux (Heteroptera). 21(2), 77–86.
  • Péricart, J. (2001) Family Lygaeidae Schilling, 1829 - Seed-bugs. Vol. 4, pp. 35–220.
  • Reuter, O.M. (1885) Ad cognitionem Lygaeidarum Palaearcticarum. Rev. Ent., Caen., 4, 199–233.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Stichel, W. (1958) Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellin der Wanzen. II. Europae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera Europae) Vol. 4. Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellin der Wanzen. II. Europae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera Europae) Vol., 4.
  • Zheng, L.Y. & Zou, H.G. (1981) Hemiptera: Lygaeidae. Insects of Tibet 1: 145-164. In: Zhongguo Kexueyuan Qingzang Gaoyuan Zonghe Kexue Kaocha Dui [The Series of the Comprehensive Scientific Expedition t the Qinghai-Xizang Plateua] Xizang kunchong [Insects of Xizang=Tibet] Vol. l. Scien. Hemiptera: Lygaeidae. Insects of Tibet, 1, 145–164.

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