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genus Meschia Distant, 1910

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (8):
  • Distant, W.L. 1910. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon & Burma. Rhynchota Vol. V. Heteroptera: Appendix 362 pp.   >> Note: Fn. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. 5: 36-7 (O.D.) || (M. pugnax as type sp.) >> Meschia    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:480182
  • Bergroth, E. 1921. Ent. mon. Mag. >> Note: Ent. Mo. Mag. (3) 7: 113 || (in Geocorinae) >> Meschia
  • Scudder, G.G.E. 1957. Proc. roy. Soc. Qd. 68:25-8 >> Note: Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 68: 28 || (key spp.; gen. posit.) >> Meschia
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 1500 >> Meschia
  • Cassis & G.F. Gross. 2002. In Houston & A. Wells. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 27.3B:352 >> Note: [type data, distribution, references [as Rhyparochrominae Unplaced]] >> Meschia
  • Malipatil, M.B. 2014. Zootaxa 3815(2):235 >> Note: redescription >> Meschia
  • Gao, Cuiqing & M.B. Malipatil. 2019. Zootaxa 4603(1):173 >> Note: key to species; additional diagnostic characters >> Meschia
  • Malipatil, M.B., Yeshwanth & Elod Kondorosy. 2021. Zootaxa 5032(2):285, 289 >> Note: Key to species >> Meschia
• Type species:  Meschia pugnax Distant, W.L., by original designation
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species barrowensis Malipatil, 2014
• species brevirostris Malipatil, Maslowski, Dobosz & Taszakowski, 2022
• species pugnax Distant, 1910
• synonym quadrimaculata Distant, 1910
• species woodwardi Scudder, 1957
• species zoui Gao & Malipatil, 2019

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