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species Graptostethus apicalis (Dallas, 1852)

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• Distribution:
  •  Congo; Gambia; Guinea; Mt. Nimba; Senegal; Sierra Leone (Slater 1964)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (11):
  • Dallas, W.S. 1852. List of the specimens of Hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part. II. 2:534 >> Lygaeus apicalis    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486625
  • Dohrn, F.A. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 112 pp. >> Note: Cat. Hem., p. 32. >> Lygaeus apicalis
  • Stal, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana II. Stockholm: Norstedtiana. pp. 1-200   >> Note: Hem. Afr. 2: 129 || (des.; syn.) >> Lygaeus apicalis
  • Stal, C. 1868. Hemiptera Fabricana I. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. >> Note: Kongl. Svens. Vet. Akad. Handl. 7: (11): 75 || (posit. in s.g.) >> Lygaeus (Graptostethus) apicalis
  • 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: 52 || (syn.) >> Lygaeus apicalis
  • Stal, C. 1874. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl 12(1):1-186   >> Note: Enum. Hem. 4: 116 || (syn.) >> Graptostethus (Graptostethus) apicalis    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486626
  • 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: 147 || (syn.) >> Graptostethus apicalis
  • Schouteden, H. 1929. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. >> Note: Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 17: 73. >> Lygaeus apicalis
  • Villiers, A. 1952. Hemipteres de L'Afrique Noire (Punaises et Cigales). Instit. Francais D'Afrique Noire 1952:1-256 >> Note: Hem. Afr. Noire, p. 115 || (des.) >> Graptostethus apicalis
  • Villiers, A. 1952. Hemipteres de L'Afrique Noire (Punaises et Cigales). Instit. Francais D'Afrique Noire 1952:309 >> Note: Graptostetus (sic) >> Graptostethus apicalis
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 50 >> Graptostethus apicalis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, West Tropical Africa, Gambia
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London

• synonym rufiventris (Stål, 1855)

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