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subspecies Tropidothorax sternalis sternalis (Dallas, 1852)

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• Distribution:
  •  Africa West,Cameroons,Dahomey,Guinea,Liberia,Nigeria,Sierra Leone(Slater 1964);Italy,Spain,Israel,Saudi Arabia,Pakistan,tropical Africa(Péricart 2001)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (16):
  • 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: 546 (O.D.) >> Lygaeus sternalis
  • Fairmaire *. 1858. >> Note: In Thomson Arch. Ent. 2: 305 || (syn. by Stal 1865) >> Lygaeus occipitalis
  • Dohrn, F.A. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 112 pp. >> Note: Cat. Hem., p. 32. >> Lygaeus sternalis
  • Stal, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana II. Stockholm: Norstedtiana. pp. 1-200   >> Note: Hem. Afr. 2: 127, 128 || (des.; syn.) >> Lygaeus sternalis
  • Stal, C. 1868. Hemiptera Fabricana I. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. >> Note: Hem. Fabr. 1: 75 || (gen. posit.) >> Lygaeus (Melanospilus) sternalis
  • 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: 53 || (syn.) >> Lygaeus sternalis
  • Stal, C. 1874. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl 12(1):1-186   >> Note: Enum. Hem. 4: 104 || (des.; syn.) >> Melanospilus sternalis    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486330
  • 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: 146. >> Lygaeus sternalis
  • Haglund. 1895. Ofvers. VetenskAcad. forh., Stockh. N. >> Note: Ofv. Kongl. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1895: 7: 457. >> Melanospilus sternalis
  • Villiers, A. 1950. Bull. Inst. franc. Afr. N. 12:930-939 >> Note: Bull. Inst. Fr. Afr. Noire 12: 934. >> Lygaeus sternalis
  • Villiers, A. 1952. Bull. Inst. franc. Afr. N. 14:1196-1213 >> Note: Bull. Inst. Fr. Afr. Noire 14: 1198. >> Lygaeus sternalis
  • Villiers, A. 1952. Hemipteres de L'Afrique Noire (Punaises et Cigales). Instit. Francais D'Afrique Noire 1952:1-256 >> Note: Hem. Afr. Noire, p. 114 || (des.) >> Lygaeus sternalis
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 232 >> Tropidothorax sternalis
  • Faraci & Rizzoti Vlach. 1995. 41:38 >> Tropidothorax sternalis
  • Pericart, J. 1997. Revue française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Série) 19(1-2):64 >> Note: Lectotype designation >> Lygaeus sternalis
  • Pericart, J. 2001. In Aukema & Rieger [Ed.]. Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palearctic Region. Volume 4. Pentatomomorpha I. The Netherland Entomological Society 4:56 >> Note: Italy,Spain,Israel,Saudi Arabia,Pakistan,tropical Africa >> Tropidothorax sternalis sternalis    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486328
• See species sternalis for additional information.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, West Tropical Africa
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London

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