Genus Plinthisus Stephens, 1829

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plinthisus Stephens, J.F. 1829. A Systematic Catalogue of British Insects. London : Baldwin & Cradock 387 pp. [65].

  Type species:

   Lygaeus brevipennis Latreille, 1807 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Wagner, E. 1963. Die palaearktischen Arten der Gattung Plinthisus Stephens, 1829. Reichenbachia 2: 95-157
• 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. [89-94]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), 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), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), 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), 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), 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

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Barber, H.G. 1918. Synoptic keys to the Lygaeidae (Hemiptera) of the United States. Pt. II. Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 25: 71-88 [81] (key, description)

Blatchley, W.S. 1926. Heteroptera or True Bugs of Eastern North America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Indianapolis : Nature Publishing Company 1116 pp. [420-421] (key, description)

China, W.E. 1943. The Generic Names of British Insect. Prepared by the Committee on Generic Nomenclature of the Royal Entomological Society of London with the assistance of the Department of Entomology of the British Museum of Natural History. Part 8. The generic names of the British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with a check list of the British species. London : Royal Entomological Society of London 211-342 pp. [240] (type)

Douglas, J.W. & Scott, J. 1865. The British Hemiptera. Vol. I. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. London : Robert Hardwicke xii 627 pp. 21 pls. [211] (description)

Fieber, F.X. 1864. Neuere Entdeckungen in europäischen Hemipteren. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift 8: 65-86, 205-236, 321-336 [213-214] (description)

Horváth, G. 1876. Die Hemipteren-Gattung Plinthisus (Westwood) Fieb. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 26: 729-736 [721-724, 727] (description, distribution)

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1900. Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Rhynchota. No. 1. The Entomologist 33(448): 238-243 [241]

Oshanin, B.F. 1912. Katalog der paläarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera—Auchenorrhyncha und Psylloideae). Berlin : R. Friedländer & Sohn xvi 187 pp. [35] (type)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1962. The world Rhyparochrominae (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). I. New synonymy and generic changes. The Canadian Entomologist 94: 764-773 [771] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Locutius as junior synonym)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [781-783] (catalogue)

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. [89] (catalogue)

Stål, C. 1872. Genera Coreidorum Europae disposuit. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 29(6): 49-58 [53] (key)

Van Duzee, E.P. 1916. Check List of the Hemiptera (excepting the Aphididae, Aleurodidae and Coccidae) of America, North of Mexico. New York : New York Entomological Society xi 111 pp. [23] (list, type species)

 

History of changes

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