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subspecies Oncopeltus (Oncopeltus) varicolor varicolor (Fabricius, 1794)

• Distribution:
  •  USA; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Haiti; Jamaica, Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Argentina; Brazil; Brit. Guiana; Colombia; Ecuador; Grenada; Peru; St. Vincent Is.; Trinidad; Venezuela (Slater 1964); Tobago; Trinidad (Baranowski & Slater 2005)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (22):
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1794. Entomologia systematica emendata & aucta IV. Hafniae: C. G. Proft pp. 4:434 pp >> Note: Ent. Syst. 4: 149-150 (O.D.) >> Lygaeus varicolor
  • Turton, W. 1800. A general system of nature through three Grand Kingdoms etc. Swansea: Voss & Morris, 2:1-717 >> Note: Gen. Syst. Nat. 2: 657 || (des.) >> Cimex varicolor    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:485614
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1803. Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunsvigae: Apud Carolum Reichard vi & x + 314 pp. >> Note: Syst. Rhyng., p. 219 || (des.) >> Lygaeus varicolor
  • Dallas, W.S. 1852. List of the specimens of Hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part. II. 2:369-592 >> Note: List Hem. B. M. 2: 538. >> Lygaeus varicolor
  • Stal. 1858. >> Note: Bid. Rio. Jan. Hem. Faun. 1: 37. >> Lygaeus varicolor
  • Dohrn, F.A. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 112 pp. >> Note: Cat. Hem., p. 32 || (listed) >> Lygaeus varicolor
  • Mayr. 1868. Hemiptera In: Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren >> Note: Reis. Freg. Novara Zool. 1: 2: 126. >> Lygaeus varicolor
  • Stal, C. 1868. Hemiptera Fabricana I. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. >> Note: Hem. Fabr. 1: 70 || (des.) >> Lygaeus (Oncopeltus) varicolor
  • Walker, F. 1872. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. London: Part V.:151-152 >> Note: Cat. Hem. Het. B. M. 5: 43. >> Lygaeus varicolor
  • Stal, C. 1874. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl 12(1):1-186   >> Note: Enum. Hem. 4: 102 || (des. var.) >> Oncopeltus varicolor    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:485615
  • Uhler, P.R. 1876. Bull. U. S. geol. geog. Surv. Terr. 1:269-361 >> Note: Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. 1: 303. >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Uhler, P.R. 1886. Brooklyn Entomological Society iv + 32 pp >> Note: List Hem. Het. N. Amer., p. 16 || (syn.) >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Provancher, L. 1885-1890. Petite faune entomologique du Canada. Vol. >> Note: Pet. Faun. Ent. Can. 3: 86. >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Distant, W.L. 1888. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 32(3):lxxviii-lxxxiii >> Note: Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 32: Ser. 3: lxxviii || (listed) >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Johnson, C.W. & Fox. 1892. Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3(3):59-60 >> Note: Ent. News 3: 59. >> Lygaeus varicolor
  • Distant, W.L. 1893. In: Goodman, F.D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana. 379 >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Uhler, P.R. 1893. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. >> Note: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893: 705. >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Lethierry & G. Severin. 1894. General catalogue of the Hemiptera. Vol. II. Heteropteres. Brussels: F. Hayez, Imprimeur de l'Academie Royale de Belgique. II >> Note: Gen. Cat. Hem. 2: 137. >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 173-174 >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Romeiro, A., Solé-Cava, Sousa, W. De Souza & M. Attias. 2000. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 47(3):211, 213, 216, 217 >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Baranowski, R.M. & J.A. Slater. 2005. The Lygaeidae of the West Indies 41 >> Note: [Tobago; Trinidad] >> Oncopeltus varicolor
  • Rengifo-Correa & González Obando. 2011. Rev. Colomb. Entomol. 37(1):336 >> Note: [Colombia] >> Oncopeltus varicolor
• See species varicolor for additional information.

• synonym alternans (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850)

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