Genus Nysius Dallas, 1852
- Nysius Dallas, W.S. 1852. List of the Specimens of Hemipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Taylor & Francis Part 2 369-592 pp. pls XII-XV. [551] [fixed by action of the International Commision of Zoological Nomenclature, Opinion 319].
Type species:
Lygaeus thymi Wolff, 1804 by designation under Plenary Powers, see Opinion 319 1955. Designation, under the Plenary Powers of type-species for the nominal genera Nysius Dallas, 1852 & Artheneis Spinola, 1837 (Class Insecta, Order Hemiptera) in harmony with accustomed usage. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 9: 133, 134-5, 142 [133-135, 142]. - Macroparius Stål, C. 1872. Genera Lygaeidarum Europae disposuit. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 29(7): 37-62 [43] [first introduced as a subgenus of Nysius Dallas, 1852].
Type species:
Corizus graminicola Kolenati, 1845 by monotypy. - Anorthus Horváth, G. 1890. Synopsis des Nysius paléarctiques. Revue Française d'Entomologie 9: 185-191 [190] [first introduced as a subgenus of Nysius Dallas, 1852; junior homonym of Anorthus Loew, 1850 [Diptera]].
Type species:
Nysius (Anorthus) atlantidum Horváth, 1890 by monotypy. - Anorthuna Strand, E. 1928. Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica, I-II. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 92(A, 8): 30-75 [46] [nom. nov. for Anorthus Horváth, 1890].
- Hemidiptera Loen, N. 1890. Hemidiptera haeckelii. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft 18: 13-16 pl. I [13].
Type species:
Hemidiptera haeckeli Leon, 1890 by monotypy. - Brachynysius Usinger, R.L. 1942. The Orsillini of New Zealand (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 72(1): 41-52 [44].
Type species:
Brachynysius convexus Usinger, 1942 by original designation. - Tropinysius Wagner, E. 1958. Der Nysius-Komplex (Hem. Het. Lygaeidae) in der Palaearktis. Commentationes Biologicae Societas Scientiarum Fennicae 19: 1-54 [15, 45] [first introduced as a subgenus of Nysius Dallas, 1852].
Type species:
Heterogaster senecionis Schilling, 1829 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Horváth, G. 1910. Notes sur le genre Nysius Dall. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 7: 11-14 [11] (synonymy of Hemidiptera)
- Eyles, A.C. 1960. Variation in the adult and immature stages of Nysius huttoni White (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) with a note on the validity of the genus Brachynysius Usinger. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 112(4): 53-72 [71] (synonymy of Brachynysius)
- Ashlock, P.D. 1967. A generic classification of the Orsillinae of the World (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 48: 1-82 [49] (synonymy of Macroparius, synonymy of Tropinysius and Anorthuna Strand, 1928)
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
IBRA
Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
General References
Ashlock, P.D. 1967. A generic classification of the Orsillinae of the World (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 48: 1-82 [49] (description, synonymy, species list, transferred to Nysiini)
Péricart, J. 1998. Hémiptères Lygaeidae Euro-Méditerranéens. Volume 1. Généralités Systématique: Première Partie. Faune de France 84A: I-XX 1-468, 4 pls [209] (description)
Schmitz, G. & Péricart, J. 1993. Contribution à une mise en ordre de la nomenclature du genre Nysius Dallas (sensu lato) pour la région paléarctique (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie N.S. 10(2): 173-186 [173] (description, Palaearctic Region)
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [253] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement subgeneric arrangement: Nysius (Nysius) Dallas, 1852, Nysius (Anorthuna) Strand, 1928, Nysius (Macroparius) Stål, 1872)
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. [35] (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 [119] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement subgeneric arrangement: Nysius (Nysius) Dallas, 1852, Nysius (Artheneis) Flor, 1860, Nysius (Rhypodes) Stål, 1868, Nysius (Macroparius) Stål, 1872, Nysius (Ortholomus) Stål, 1872)
Usinger, R.L. 1942. The genus Nysius and its allies in the Hawaiian Islands (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae, Orsillini). Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 1942(173): 1-167 12 pls [84] (description)
Usinger, R.L. & Sailer, R.I. 1944. Nomenclature of the genus Nysius and its allies (Lygaeidae: Heteroptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 46: 260-262 (nomenclature)
Usinger, R.L. & Sailer, R.I. 1951. Proposed use of the Plenary Powers to designate type species for the genera "Nysius" Dallas, 1852, and "Artheneis" Spinola, 1837 (Class Insecta, Order Hemiptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 2(11): 313-314 (nomenclature)
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