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genus Melanostethus Stal, 1868

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (7):
  • Stal, C. 1868. Hemiptera Fabricana I. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 75 >> Note: Hem. Fabr. 1: 75 (O.D.) || (Lygaeus marginatus as monotype) >> Lygaeus (Melanostethus)    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:487079
  • 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: 37 || (key s.g.) >> Lygaeus (Melanostethus)
  • Stal, C. 1874. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl 12(1):1-186   >> Note: Enum. Hem. 4: 105, 108. || (keyed) >> Lygaeus (Melanostethus)
  • 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: 138. || (listed) >> Lygaeus (Melanostethus)
  • Slater, J.A. 1957. Bull. Brooklyn ent. Soc. 52:35-38 >> Note: Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc. 52: 36. || (synon.) (pt.) >> Melanostethus    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:487078
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 148 >> Melanostethus
  • Slater, J.A. & J.E. O'Donnell. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the world 17 >> Melanostethus
• Type species:  Lygaeus marginatus Thunberg (= Melanostethus marginatus marginatus), by original monotypy
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species capensis Slater, 1964
• species marginatus (Thunberg, 1822)
• subspecies drakensbergensis Slater & Sperry, 1973
• subspecies marginatus (Thunberg, 1822)
• species melanurus (Germar, 1837)

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