Species Ninus insignis Stål, 1860

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ninus insignis Stål, C. 1860. Hemiptera. Species novas descripsit. pp. 219–298 in, Konglika Svenska Fregattens Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden, under Befal af C.A. Virgin åren 1851–1853. III Zoologi, Insekter. Stockholm : Norstedt. [253].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂ ♀ specimens, Guam.
• Ninus singalensis Breddin, G. 1907. Berytiden und Myodochiden von Ceylon aus der Sammelausbeute von Dr. W. Horn (Rhynch. Het.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1907: 34-47, 203-220 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype IPK ♀ (depository uncertain), Weligama, Sri Lanka (as Weligama, Ceylon).
• Ninus stylatus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. A catalogue of the Hemiptera of Fiji. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 345-391 pl. IV [356].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM, Rewa, Ba and Nuava, Fiji.
• Ossipaga ceylanica Distant, W.L. 1918. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Homoptera: Appendix, Heteroptera: Appendix). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 7 viii 210 pp. [185].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Peradenyia, Sri Lanka (as Peradenyia, Ceylon).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bergroth, E. 1918. Studies in Philippine Heteroptera, I. Philippine Journal of Science 13: 43-73, 75-126 [63] (synonymy of Ninus singalensis and Ninus stylatus)
• Bergroth, E. 1921. Notes on some Cyminae (Hem., Myodochidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 61: 165-168 [166] (synonymy of Ossipaga ceylanica)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Cairns, Barron Falls.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, granivore (associated flora: Saccharum officinarum L. [POACEAE] Sugarcane; Fimbristylis cymosa R.Br. [CYPERACEAE]), terrestrial, tropical, up-on-plants, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

In seed heads.

 

General References

Bergroth, E. 1921. Notes on some Cyminae (Hem., Myodochidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 61: 165-168 [166] (description, synonymy)

Box, H.E. 1953. List of Sugar-cane Insects. A synonymic catalogue of the sugar-cane insects and mites of the world, and of their insect parasites and predators, arranged systematically. London : Commonwealth Institute of Entomology 101 pp. [37] (host, Ninus stylatus)

Distant, W.L. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 5 xii 362 pp. [15] (description)

Distant, W.L. 1918. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Homoptera: Appendix, Heteroptera: Appendix). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 7 viii 210 pp. [183] (synonymy)

Kormilev, N.A. 1955. Notas sobre Lygaeidae neotropicales I. (Hemiptera). La subfamilia Cyminae (Stål) en la Argentina. Cuadernos. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales. San Miguel 2: 1-9 [8] (description)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [158] (catalogue)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1957. A revision of Ninini (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Lygaeidae) including the description of a new species from Angola. Publicaçoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 34: 91-108 [96-98] (description)

Slater, J.A. 1963. Immature stages of the subfamilies Cyminae and Ischnorhynchinae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 36: 84-93 [90] (larvae)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [427] (catalogue)

Stål, C. 1874. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 4. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 12(1): 1-186 [170] (diagnosis)

Usinger, R.L. 1939. Distribution of the Heteroptera of Oceania. Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Science Congress 4: 311-315 [313] (distribution, Pacific Basin)

Usinger, R.L. 1946. Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam. pp. 11–103 in, Insects of Guam, II. Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 189. [28] (host, Guam)

Usinger, R.L. 1951. Heteroptera of the Marshall Islands. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 14: 315-321 [316-317, 321] (host, Marshall Ils)

Usinger, R.L. 1952. New species and additional records of Heteroptera from the Marshall Islands. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 14: 519-524 [522] (distribution)

Van Duzee, E.P. 1916. Check List of the Hemiptera (excepting the Aphididae, Aleurodidae and Coccidae) of America, North of Mexico. New York : New York Entomological Society xi 111 pp. [19] (type)

 

History of changes

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