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Lygaeoidea Species File
species

Melanopleurus pyrrhopterus (Stål, 1874)

Nomenclature (4)

  • Lygaeus (Ochrostomus) pyrrhopterus Stål, 1874
  • Melanopleurus pyrrhopterus (Stal, 1874) in Ashlock, 1975: 30-31.
  • Melanopleurus pyrrhopterus (Stal, 1874) in Ashlock & Slater, 1988: 196.
  • Melanopleurus pyrrhopterus (Stal, 1874) in Slater & O'Donnell, 1995: 17.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • 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.
  • Ashlock, P.D. (1975) Toward a classification of North American Lygaeinae (Hemiptera- Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc., 48, 27–32.
  • 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.
  • Stål, C. (1874) Enumeratio Hemipterorum pt. 4. Enumeratio Hemipterorum pt., 12(1), 1–186. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45975#page/5/mode/1up

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
species1012
subspecies2079