Species Nysius caledoniae Distant, 1920

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nysius caledoniae Distant, W.L. 1920. Rhynchota from New Caledonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 6: 143-164 [151].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Central New Caledonia.
• Nysius villicus Van Duzee, E.P. 1940. New species of Hemiptera collected by the Templeton Crocker Expedition to the Solomon Islands in 1933. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 16: 178-192 [182].
• Nysius clevelandensis Evans, J.W. 1929. A new species of Nysius (Hem.: Lygaeidae) from Australia. Bulletin of Entomological Research 19: 351-354 [351].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Cleveland, QLD.
  Paratype(s) whereabouts unknown 21 specimens.
• Nysius dissimilis Izzard, R.J. 1936. The Hemiptera of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 17: 577-600 [581].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Christmas Is.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 2 specimens.
• Nysius (Nysius) pacificus 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 [116].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Efate Is., Havannah Harbour, Vanuatu (as New Hebrides).
  Paratype(s) BMNH 30 specimens.
• Nysius turneri Evans, J.W. 1936. A new species of Nysius (Hem.: Lygaeidae) from Tasmania, and notes on the economic importance of the genus. Bulletin of Entomological Research 27: 673-676 [673].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀, Launceston, TAS.
  Paratype(s) AM ♀.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Malipatil M.B. 2010. Review and revision of Nysius Dallas of Australia and South West Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Orsillidae). Zootaxa 2410: 29-44 [35-36] (Nysius clevelandensis, Nysius turneri, Nysius pacificus, Nysius dissimilis, Nysius villicus synonymised)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Caledonia, Micronesia, Vanuatu, Malaita Islands, Solomon Islands

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Malipatil M.B. 2010. Review and revision of Nysius Dallas of Australia and South West Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Orsillidae). Zootaxa 2410: 29-44 [35] (redescription, diagnosis, distribution, illustrations, key to spp.)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		16-Apr-2012	ADDED