Genus Poeantius Stål, 1865

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• Poeantius Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana. Holmiae : Norstedtiana Vol. 2 181 pp. [163].

  Type species:

   Rhyparochromus nigropictus Stål, 1855 by monotypy.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

RHYPAROCHROMIDAE: Poeantius lineatus Stål, 1874 — Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 2002. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Vol. 27.3B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiv 737 pp. [339] (previous Australian records based on a misidentification of Poeantius australopictus Gross & Scudder, 1963)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Bergroth, E. 1918. Studies in Philippine Heteroptera, I. Philippine Journal of Science 13: 43-73, 75-126 [84] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Naudarensia Distant, 1903 as junior synonym)

Breddin, G. 1907. Berytiden und Myodochiden von Ceylon aus der Sammelausbeute von Dr. W. Horn (Rhynch. Het.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1907: 34-47, 203-220 [208] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Naudarensia Distant, 1903 as junior synonym)

Distant, W.L. 1883. First report on the Rhynchota collected in Japan by Mr. George Lewis. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1883: 413-443 pls XIIX-XX [439] (note, Japan)

Distant, W.L. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2(1) x 242 pp. [85] (description)

Gross, G.F. & Scudder, G.G.E. 1963. The Australian Rhyparochromini (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 427-469 pls 19-24 [461] (description)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [221] (catalogue)

Oshanin, B.F. 1912. Katalog der paläarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera—Auchenorrhyncha und Psylloideae). Berlin : R. Friedländer & Sohn xvi 187 pp. [38] (catalogue)

Poppius, B. in Poppius, B. & Bergroth, E. 1921. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der myrmecoiden Heteropteren. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 18: 31-88 pls I-II [78-79, 84] (description, ant mimicry)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1957. The higher classification of the Rhyparochrominae (Hem., Lygaeidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 93: 152-156 [155] (transferred to Rhyparochromina)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [1269-1270] (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 [162-163] (diagnosis)

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