Lygaeoidea Species FileLygaeoidea Species File

genus

Metacanthus Costa, 1847

Type

Berytus meridionalis Costa, 1843 type species by original designation of Metacanthus Costa, 1847

Nomenclature (8)

  • Metacanthus Costa, 1847: 258.

    type species by original designation Berytus meridionalis Costa, 1843

  • Metacanthus Costa, 1847 in Froeschner & Henry, 1988: 59.
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  • Metacanthus Costa, 1847 in Dellapé, 2014: 423.
  • Metacanthus Costa, 1847 in Henry, Dellapé & de Paula, 2015: 464, 466.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. (2002) Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). Vol. 27.3B, pp. xiv 737.
  • Costa, A. (1847) Cimicum Regni Neapolitani centuria. Atti Ist. Sci. nat. Napoli, 239–279.
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  • Dellapé, P.M. (2014) Lygaeoidea. In Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos vol. 3. INSUE -UNT ediciones, Tucumán, Argentino. 421–438 pp.
  • Froeschner, R.C. & Henry, T.J. (1988) Family Berytidae Fieber, 1851 (= Neididae Kyrkaldy, 1902; Berytinidae Southwood and Leston, 1959). The Stilt Bugs. In Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill Publ., Leiden and New York. pp. 56–60.
  • Henry, T.J. & Froeschner, R.C. (1998) Catalog of the Stilt Bugs or Berytidae of the world (insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera). 30(4), 72.
  • Henry, T.J. & Froeschner, R.C. (2000) Corrections and additions to the "Catalog of the Stilt Bugs, or Berytidae, of the world (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera)". 102(4), 1003–1004.
  • Henry, T.J., Dellapé, P.M. & de Paula, A.S. (2015) Chapter 16. The Big-Eyed Bugs, Chinch Bugs, and Seed Bugs (Lygaeoidea). In True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics. Antônio Panizzi y Jocelia Grazia editores. Springer publishing Co., Inglaterra. 459–514 pp.
  • Péricart, J. (2001) Pamily Berytidae Fieber, 1851 - Stilt-bugs. Vol. 4, pp. 230–242.

Descendants and synonyms

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
genus1001
subgenus2057
species2506186
subspecies3058