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subspecies Melanostethus marginatus marginatus (Thunberg, 1822)

• Distribution:
  •  South Africa (Slater 1964)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (9):
  • Billberg. 1820. Enumeratio insectorum in museo Billberg. Holmiae: Typis Gadelianis 69 >> Note: [Lygaeus marginatus, nomen nudum?]
  • Thunberg. 1822. Dissertatis entomologica de Hemipteris Rostratis capensibus. (Handwritten copy in USNM. 4:2 >> Note: (O.D.) >> Lygaeus marginatus
  • Stal, C. 1856. Ofvers. VetenskAkad. Forh., Stockh. >> Note: Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forh. 13: 196 || (des.) >> Lygaeus marginatus
  • Stal, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana II. Stockholm: Norstedtiana. pp. 1-200   >> Note: Hem. Afr. 2: 141-142 || (des.; syn.) >> Lygaeus marginatus
  • Stal, C. 1868. Hemiptera Fabricana I. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. >> Note: Hem. Fabr. 1: 75 || (in s.g. Melanostethus as monotype) >> Lygaeus (Melanostethus) marginatus
  • 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: 54 || (syn.) >> Lygaeus marginatus
  • Stal, C. 1874. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl 12(1):1-186   >> Note: Enum. Hem. 4: 108. >> Lygaeus (Melanostethus) marginatus
  • 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: 143. || (syn.) >> Lygaeus marginatus
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 148-149 >> Melanostethus marginatus
• See species marginatus for additional information.

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