Genus Scopiastes Stål, 1874

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scopiastes 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 [100].

  Type species:

   Astacops degeeri Stål, 1865 by monotypy.
• Abgarus Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchota Malayana. Part iii. Records of the Indian Museum 5: 313-338 [313].

  Type species:

   Abgarus typicus Distant, 1910 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Scudder, G.G.E. 1963. A revision of the genus Astacops sensu lat. (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Pacific Insects 5: 315-415 [371]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

General References

Banks, C.S. 1909. Rhynchota Palawanica, Part I: Heteroptera. Philippine Journal of Science 4: 553-593 pls I-II [571] (list)

Blöte, H.C. 1972. On some Lygaeidae of the genus Astacops and allies. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 47: 410-413 [411] (diagnosis)

Horváth, G. 1914. Miscellanea Hemipterologica. XIII–XVII. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 12: 623-660 [628, 629] (description, classification)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [136] (catalogue)

Slater, A. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Lygaeinae of Australia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52: 301-481 [345] (description)

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. [25] (catalogue)

History of changes