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Lygaeoidea Species File
Species

Cryphula nitens Barber, 1955

CollectionObject 1595313; cf401f3d-0944-41dc-b91b-f78b7fd275a1: Cryphula nitens HOLOTYPE (NMNH) - (CC BY-NC 3.0) - Photo by Pablo M. Dellapé with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1595313; cf401f3d-0944-41dc-b91b-f78b7fd275a1: Cryphula nitens HOLOTYPE (NMNH) - (CC BY-NC 3.0) - Photo by Pablo M. Dellapé with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1595313; cf401f3d-0944-41dc-b91b-f78b7fd275a1: Cryphula nitens - Holotype Labels (NMNH) - (CC BY-NC 3.0) - Photo by Pablo M. Dellapé with permission from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Cryphula apicatus Barber, 1918
  • Cryphula apicatus Barber, 1918 (unavailable or invalid, linked to Cryphula nitens Barber, 1955)
  • Cryphula nitens Barber, 1955 in Slater, 1964: 816.
  • Cryphula nitens Barber, 1955 in Ashlock & Slater, 1988: 222.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Barber, H.G. (1918) Concerning Lygaeidae--No.2. 26(2), 49–66.
  • Harris, H.M. & Shull, W.E. (1944) A preliminary list of Hemiptera of Idaho. Iowa State College Journal of Science, 18(2), 199–208.
  • 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.
  • Barber, H.G. (1955) The genus Cryphula Stal, with the descriptions of two new species (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). 63, 135–137.
  • Scudder, G.G.E. (1962) The world Rhyparochrominae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) I. new synonymy and generic changes. The Canadian Entomologist, 94, 764–773.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1012