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species Blissus antillus Leonard, 1968

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• Distribution:
  •  Puerto Rico (Slater & O´Donnell); Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac (Baranowski & Slater 1998); Antigua; Cayman Brac; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grand Cayman; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Little Cayman; Martinique; Montserrat; Providenciales; Puerto Rico; St. Barthelemy; St. Croix; St. Lucia; St. Vincent; Tobago; Trinidad; Virgin Gorda (Baranowski & Slater 2005)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (10):
  • Leonard, D.E. 1968. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 70:152-153 >> Blissus antillus    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:489154
  • Slater, J.A. & J.E. O'Donnell. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the world 45 >> Blissus antillus
  • Baranowski, R.M. & J.A. Slater. 1998. Florida Ent. 81(1):81, 84-85 >> Note: Keyed, diagnosed >> Blissus antillus
  • Valério, Vieira & da C. S. Valle. 1999. An. Soc. Entomol. Brasil 28(3):527-528 >> Note: in Tangola pasture (hybrid between Tanner grass Brachiaria arrecta (syn. B. radicans) and Angola grass, B. mutica) >> Blissus antillus
  • Coracini & Samuels. 2002. Neotropical Entomology 31(1):165-167 >> Blissus antillus
  • Samuels, Coracini, Martins dos Santos & Gava. 2002. Biol. Contr. 23(3):269-272 >> Blissus antillus
  • Samuels & Araújo Coracini. 2004. Scientia Agricola 61(3):271-274 >> Blissus antillus
  • Baranowski, R.M. & J.A. Slater. 2005. The Lygaeidae of the West Indies 59-60 >> Note: [Antigua; Cayman Brac; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grand Cayman; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Little Cayman; Martinique; Montserrat; Providenciales; Puerto Rico; St. Barthelemy; St. Croix; St. Lucia; St. Vincent; Tobago; Trinidad; Virgin Gorda] >> Blissus antillus
  • Boyle & Cutler. 2012. Journal of Pest Science 85(4):505 >> Blissus antillus
  • Henry, P. M. Dellapé & A. S. de Paula. 2015. True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics 503 >> Blissus antillus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  NMNH

• synonym planus Leonard, 1968
• synonym slateri Leonard, 1968

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