Lygaeoidea Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)        Home       Search       Taxa       Key       Help       Wiki

Taxa hierarchy  

species Melanerythrus mactans (Stal, 1867)

• Distribution:
  •  Australia; Fiji Is. (Slater 1964)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (15):
  • Stal, C. 1867. Berl. ent. Z. >> Note: Ber. Ent. Zeit. 10: 162 (O.D.) >> Lygaeus mactans    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:485967
  • Stal, C. 1868. Hemiptera Fabricana I. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. >> Note: Hem. Fabr. 1: 76 || (as monotype Melanerythrus n.g.) >> Melanerythrus mactans    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:485966
  • 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: 62. >> Lygaeus mactans
  • Stal, C. 1874. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl 12(1):1-186   >> Note: Enum. Hem. 4: 108. >> Lygaeus (Melanerythrus) mactans
  • 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: 143. >> Lygaeus mactans
  • Distant, W.L. 1901. The Annals and magazine of natural history 7 7(42):536 >> Note: (syn.) >> Lygaeus mactans
  • Froggatt, W.W. 1907. Australian insects. Sydney: William Brooks & Co. Ltd. pp.i-xiv, >> Note: Australian Ins., p. 333 || (des. nt.) >> Lygaeus mactans
  • Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. >> Note: Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 33: 355. >> Stalagmostethus mactans    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:485968
  • Bergroth, E. 1916. Proc. roy. Soc. Vict. >> Note: Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. 29: (ns): 33. >> Spilostethus mactans    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:485969
  • China, W.E. 1930. Insects of Samoa & other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda Pt. II. Hemiptera. Fasc. 2(3):81-162 >> Note: Ins. Samoa, Pt. II. Hem. 3: 115 || (gen. posit.; type sp.) >> Melanerythrus mactans
  • Musgrave. 1945. Trans. roy. Soc. S. Aust. 69:14-15 >> Note: Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia 69: 15. >> Lygaeus mactans
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 119 >> Melanerythrus mactans
  • Slater Alex. 1978. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 71:857 >> Melanerythrus mactans
  • Slater, J.A. & J.E. O'Donnell. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the world 15 >> Melanerythrus mactans
  • Cassis & G.F. Gross. 2002. In Houston & A. Wells. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 27.3B:225 >> Note: [type data, type locality, distribution, ecology, references] >> Melanerythrus mactans

• synonym ruficeps (Walker, 1872)
• synonym melanesicus (Kirkaldy, 1909)

	Home       Search       Taxa       Key       Help       Wiki      |      Top of page
Copyright © 2025.  Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.