Genus Melanotelus Reuter, 1885

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• Melanotelus Reuter, O.M. 1885. Ad cognitionem Lygaeidarum palaearcticarum. Revue Française d'Entomologie 4: 199-233 [200].

  Type species:

   Melanotelus argillaceus Reuter, 1885 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. [12].

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

LYGAEIDAE: Melanotelus bipunctata Dallas, 1852 — Slater, A. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Lygaeinae of Australia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52: 301-481 [417]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: 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), 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), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), 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), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), 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), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

General References

Bergroth, E. 1918. Studies in Philippine Heteroptera, I. Philippine Journal of Science 13: 43-73, 75-126 [57] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as junior synonym of Lygaeosoma Spinola)

Distant, W.L. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2(1) x 242 pp. [12] (description)

Oshanin, B.F. 1912. Katalog der paläarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera—Auchenorrhyncha und Psylloideae). Berlin : R. Friedländer & Sohn xvi 187 pp. [28] (catalogue)

Péricart, J. 1998. Hémiptères Lygaeidae Euro-Méditerranéens. Volume 1. Généralités Systématique: Première Partie. Faune de France 84A: I-XX 1-468, 4 pls [158] (description)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1968. Air-borne Lygaeidae (Hemiptera) trapped over the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, with the description of a new species of Appolonius Distant. Pacific Insects 10: 155-160 [156] (diagnosis)

Slater, A. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Lygaeinae of Australia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52: 301-481 [411] (description)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [64] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as subgenus of Lygaeosoma Spinola)

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. [17] (catalogue)

Stichel, W. 1959. Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Deutschen Wanzen. II. Europa (Hemiptera-Heteroptera Europae). Berlin-Hermsdorf : Verlag W. Stichel Vol. 4(8-12) pp. 225-384. [Pt 8, Pentatomomorpha Lygaeoidea Lygaeidae (7) pp. 225–256; Pt 9, Pentatomomorpha Lygaeiodea Lygaeidae (8) pp. 257–288; Pt 10, Pentatomomorpha Lygaeidae (9), Pyrrhocoridae Addenda, Corrigenda Supplementa Liste der paläarktischen Arten (1) pp. 289–320; Pt 11, Liste der paläarkstischen Arten (2. Fortsetzung) Pentatomomorpha Lygaeidae pp. 321–352; Pt 12, Pentatomomorpha Coreoidea Stenocephalidae Coreidae (Coreinae) pp. 353–384] [313] (list)

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