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species Tropidothorax elegans (Distant, 1883)

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• Distribution:
  •  Formosa(Slater 1964); China,Japan(Slater 1964;Péricart 2001);North & South Korea,Taiwan (Péricart 2001)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (13):
  • Distant, W.L. 1883. Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 428, 429 >> Note: Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1883: 428, 429 (O.D.) || (fig.-dv; syn.) (syn. by Reuter 1885) >> Melanospilus elegans    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486337
  • Reuter, O.M. 1885. Rev. Ent., Caen. 4:199-233 >> Note: Rev. d'Ent. 4: 199 || (syns.) >> Melanospilus elegans
  • Horvath, G. 1899. Rev. Ent., Caen. >> Note: Rev. d'Ent. 17: 279 || (gen. posit.) >> Tropidothorax cruciger elegans    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486338
  • Puton, A. 1899. Catalogue des Hemipteres (Heteropteres, Cicadines & Psyllides) de la faune palearctique. >> Note: Cat. Pal. Hem., 4th Ed., p. 24 || (listed) >> Lygaeus (Tropidothorax) cruciger elegans    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486339
  • Horvath, G. 1901. In: Zoologische Ergebnisse der dritten Asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy. Budapest and Leipzig: Hornyanszky Viktor and Karl. W. Hiersemann >> Note: Hem. In Zool. Erg. Asia. Forsc. Eug. Zichy 2: 250. >> Tropidothorax elegans    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486336
  • Oshanin. 1912. Katalog der palaarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera-Auchenorhyncha & Psylloideae). Berlin: xvi + 187 pp. >> Note: Kat. Pal. Hem., p. 27 || (listed) >> Lygaeus cruciger elegans    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:486340
  • Esaki. 1926. Ann. hist.-nat. Mus. hung. 24:158 >> Melanospilus elegans
  • Stichel, W. 1958. Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellin der Wanzen. II. Europae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera Europae) Vol. 4 >> Note: Ill. Bst. Eur. Wanz. II. 4: 10: 311 || (listed) >> Tropidothorax cruciger elegans
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 226 >> Tropidothorax cruciger elegans
  • Zheng, L.Y. & H.G. Zou. 1981. Hemiptera: Lygaeidae. Insects of Tibet 1:9 >> Note: Raised to specific status by Zheng >> Tropidothorax elegans
  • Slater, J.A. & J.E. O'Donnell. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the world 29 >> Tropidothorax elegans
  • Péricart. 1999. Revue française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Série) 21(2):80 >> Note: Lectotype designation >> Melanospilus elegans
  • Pericart, J. 2001. In Aukema & Rieger [Ed.]. Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palearctic Region. Volume 4. Pentatomomorpha I. The Netherland Entomological Society 4:55 >> Note: China,Japan,North & South Korea,Taiwan >> Tropidothorax elegans
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia, Japan
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London

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