Genus Fontejus Stål, 1862

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• Fontejus Stål, C. 1862. Hemiptera mexicana enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 23: 81-118, 273-281, 289-325, 437-462 [314].

  Type species:

   Rhyparochromus sidnicus Stål, 1860 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Ranges (CR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Gross, G.F. 1962. Aberrant Australian brachypterous myodochine bugs (Lygaeidae: Rhyparochrominae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 371-396 pls 14-16 [376] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Albanyaria Distant as junior synonym)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1957. The higher classification of the Rhyparochrominae (Hem., Lygaeidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 93: 152-156 [155] (transferred to Plociomerina)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1061] (catalogue)

Slater, J.A. & O'Donnell, J.E. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World (1960–1994). New York : New York Entomological Society xv 410 pp. [141] (catalogue)

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