Genus Macropes Motschulsky, 1859

Museums

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• Macropes Motschulsky, V. 1859. Entomologie spéciale. Insectes des Indes orientales et de contrees analogues. Études Entomologiques 8: 25-118 [108].

  Type species:

   Macropes spinimanus Motschulsky, 1859 by subsequent designation, see Distant, W.L. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2(1) x 242 pp. [22].
• Rhabdomorphus Bergroth, E. 1918. Studies in Philippine Heteroptera, I. Philippine Journal of Science 13: 43-73, 75-126 [68].

  Type species:

   Rhabdomorphus longurio Bergroth, 1918 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Slater, J.A. & Wilcox, D.B. 1973. A revision of the genus Macropes (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Pacific Insects 15: 213-258 [213]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [162] (catalogue)

Slater, J.A. 1979. The systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the Blissinae of the world. (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 165: 1-180 [134] (diagnosis)

Slater, J.A., Ashlock, P.D. & Wilcox, D.B. 1969. The Blissinae of Thailand and Indochina (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Pacific Insects 11: 671-733 [673] (description, species groups)

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 [130] (list)

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