Genus Scolopostethus Fieber, 1861

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scolopostethus Fieber, F.X. 1861. Die europäischen Hemiptera: Halbflügler (Rhynchota Heteroptera). Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet. Wien : C. Gerold vi 1-112 pp. [Date published 1861: dated 1860] [49, 188].

  Type species:

   Scolopostethus cognatus Fieber, 1860 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. [92]; Opinion 680 1963. International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. 1963d. Scolopostethus Fieber, 1860 (Insect, Hemiptera): validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 20: 409-410 [409].
• Manatanus Distant, W.L. 1909. Oriental Rhynchota Heteroptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 3: 491-507 [494].

  Type species:

   Manatanus montanus Distant, 1909 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Opinion 680 1963. International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. 1963d. Scolopostethus Fieber, 1860 (Insect, Hemiptera): validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 20: 409-410 (Tritomacera Costa, 1841 and Tritomocera Agassiz, 1846 placed on list of rejected names in Zoology)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Broadly distributed across Europe, Meidterranean and Middle East.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Ashlock, P.D. & Slater, A. 1988. Family Lygaeidae Schilling, 1829 (= Infericornes Amyot and Serville, 1843; Myodochidae Kirkaldy, 1899; Geocoridae Kirkaldy, 1902). The Seed Bugs and Chinch Bugs. pp. 167-245 in Henry, T.J. & Froeschner, R.C. (eds). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Leiden : E.J. Brill xix 958 pp. [216] (Nearctic Region)

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. [244] (type fixation)

Distant, W.L. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 5 xii 362 pp. [86] (description)

Douglas, J.W. & Scott, J. 1865. The British Hemiptera. Vol. I. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. London : Robert Hardwicke xii 627 pp. 21 pls. [181-182] (description)

Gross, G.F. 1965. A revision of the Australian and New Guinea Drymini (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 39-78 pls 3-7 [67] (description)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [228] (catalogue)

Opinion 680 1963. International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. 1963d. Scolopostethus Fieber, 1860 (Insect, Hemiptera): validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 20: 409-410 [409] (placed on official list of generic names in Zoology)

Péricart, J. 1998. Hémiptères Lygaeidae Euro-Méditerranéens. Volume 2. Systématique: Seconde Partie. Oxycareninae, Bledionotinae, Rhyparochrominae (1). Faune de France 84B: I-III 1-453, 3 pls [284] (description, European and Mediterranean fauna)

Scudder, G.G.E. 1957. The higher classification of the Rhyparochrominae (Hem., Lygaeidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 93: 152-156 [154] (Drymini)

Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [952-980] (catalogue)

Slater, J.A. 1993. A new genus and two new species of Drymini from Africa (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Journal of African Zoology 107: 373-381 [375] (generic limits)

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. [122] (catalogue)

Stål, C. 1872. Genera Lygaeidarum Europae disposuit. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 29(7): 37-62 [60] (synonym, key, Drymaria)

 

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