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Scolopostethus tropicus (Distant, 1882)

CollectionObject 1593962; bcddc74c-8fbd-48ee-855f-209c516d77e3: Scolopostethus tropicus. Lectotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1593962; bcddc74c-8fbd-48ee-855f-209c516d77e3: Scolopostethus tropicus. Lectotype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1593962; bcddc74c-8fbd-48ee-855f-209c516d77e3: Scolopostethus tropicus. Lectotype- dorsal habitus. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Eremocoris tropicus Distant, 1882

    Lectotype; male; bcddc74c-8fbd-48ee-855f-209c516d77e3; Guatemala

  • Eremocoris tropicus Distant, 1882 in Banks, 1910
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  • Scolopostethus tropicus (Distant, 1882) in Ashlock & Slater, 1988: 217.
  • Scolopostethus tropicus (Distant, 1882) in Slater & O'Donnell, 1995: 123.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • 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.
  • Banks, N. (1910) Catalogue of the Nearctic Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Catalogue of the Nearctic Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Amer. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia: P.C. Stockhausen pp.
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  • Blatchley, W.S. (1934) Notes on a collection of Heteroptera taken in winter in the vicinity of Los Angeles, California. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc.
  • 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. (1882) Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Vol. 1. Vol. I. Biol. cent.-amer. London (v)-xx, 169–224.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1916) Check list of the Hemiptera (excepting the Aphididae, Aleurodidae and Coccidae) of America, north of Mexico. Check list of the Hemiptera (excepting the Aphididae, Aleurodidae and Coccidae) of America, north of Mexico. New York: N. Y. Ent. Soc., i-x, 1–111.

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