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species Lygaeus quadratomaculatus Kirby, 1891

• Images:

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Ceylon (Slater 1964); China, Sri Lanka (Péricart 2001)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (8):
  • Kirby, W.F. 1891. J. linn. Soc. (Zool.) >> Note: Jour. Linn. Soc. Zool. 24: 149-150: 98-99 (O.D.) || (fig.-dv.) >> Lygaeus quadratomaculatus    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486672
  • 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: 157 || (incert. gen.) >> Lygaeus quadratomaculatus
  • Distant, W.L. 1901. The Annals and magazine of natural history 7 7(42):537 >> Graptostethus quadratomaculatus    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486671
  • Distant, W.L. 1904. Fauna of British India, including Ceylon & Burma Rhynchota. Vol. II. (Heteroptera). London: Taylor & Francis pp. 1-503 >> Note: Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. 2: 10 || (des.) >> Graptostethus quadratomaculatus
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 56 >> Graptostethus quadratomaculatus
  • Zheng, L. & H.G. Zou. 1981. A Handbook for the determination of the Chinese Hemiptera-Heteroptera. T.Y. Hsiao (edit.) 1-215, 564-572, 589-612 >> Note: [transferred from Graptostethus] >> Lygaeus quadratomaculatus
  • Péricart. 1999. Revue française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Série) 21(2):84 >> Note: Lectotype designation >> Lygaeus quadratomaculatus
  • Pericart, J. 2001. In Aukema & Rieger [Ed.]. Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palearctic Region. Volume 4. Pentatomomorpha I. The Netherland Entomological Society 4:47-48 >> Note: China, Sri Lanka >> Lygaeus quadratomaculatus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, Sri Lanka
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London

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