Genus Germalus Stål, 1862
- Germalus Stål, C. 1862. Hemiptera mexicana enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 23: 81-118, 273-281, 289-325, 437-462 [311].
Type species:
Henestaris kinbergi Stål, 1859 by subsequent designation, see Distant, W.L. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 5 xii 362 pp. [29]. - Ophthalmocoris Montandon, A.L. 1907. Nouveaux genres et espèces du groupe des Geocorinae. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 5: 89-97 [89].
Type species:
Ophthalmocoris bipunctata Montandon, 1907 by original designation. - Neogermalus Montandon, A.L. 1913. Nouvelles études sur les Geocorinae (Hemipt.). Note présentée dans la séances du 20 Mai 1913. Bulletin de la Section Scientifique de l'Académie Roumaine 1 2: 48-60 [50].
Type species:
Neogermalus membranaeus Montadon, 1913 (=Germalus montandoni Bergroth, 1916) by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Montandon, A.L. 1913. Nouvelles études sur les Geocorinae (Hemipt.). Note présentée dans la séances du 20 Mai 1913. Bulletin de la Section Scientifique de l'Académie Roumaine 1 2: 48-60 [48] (synonymy of Ophthalmocoris)
- Bergroth, E. 1916. Heteropterous Hemiptera collected by Professor W. Baldwin Spencer during the Horn Expedition into Central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 29: 19-39 [36] (synonymy of Neogermalus)
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Stony Plains (STP) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Distribution References
General References
Barber, H.G. 1958. Insects of Micronesia. Heteroptera: Lygaeidae. Insects of Micronesia 7: 173-218 [187] (synonymy, distribution)
Bergroth, E. 1916. Heteropterous Hemiptera collected by Professor W. Baldwin Spencer during the Horn Expedition into Central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 29: 19-39 [36] (description)
China, W.E. 1930. Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Part II. Fasc. 3. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 2(3): 81-162 [88] (distribution)
Malipatil, M.B. & Blacket, M.J. 2013. Review and revision of Australian Germalus Stål, with new genera and further new species of Australian Geocorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Geocoridae). Zootaxa 3746(2): 257-300
Montandon, A.L. 1913. Nouvelles études sur les Geocorinae (Hemipt.). Note présentée dans la séances du 20 Mai 1913. Bulletin de la Section Scientifique de l'Académie Roumaine 1 2: 48-60 [48] (description, synonymy)
Slater, J.A. & Hurlbutt, H.W. 1957. A comparative study of the metathoracic wing in the family Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 67-79 [71, 76] (phylogeny)
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. [70] (catalogue)
Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana. Holmiae : Norstedtiana Vol. 2 181 pp. [142] (description)
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 [133] (key)
Usinger, R.L. 1936. New distributional records of Hawaiian Heteroptera. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 9: 209-210 [212, 213, 215] (description, distribution)
Van Duzee, E.P. 1932. New Hemiptera-Heteroptera from the Marquesas. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 98: 177-190 pl. 5 (description, distribution)
Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Insects of Hawaii. Heteroptera. Honolulu : Univ. Hawaii Press Vol. 3 255 pp. [111] (distribution)
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