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Issue: Vol. 1933 No. 1: 14 Nov. 2008
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2008-11-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1933.1.8
Page range: 66–68
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 3

Lactistes obesipes Signoret, 1879 (Hemiptera: Cydnidae)—the burrower bug enigma: redescription, synonymy, and remarks on its distribution and taxonomic status

Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole, Poland
Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole, Poland
Hemiptera Cydnidae

Abstract

The genus Lactistes Schiødte, 1847 (Cydnidae: Cydninae: Geotomini sensu lato – for a new classification of the Cydnidae, see Pluot-Sigwalt & J.A. Lis, 2008) comprises 15 species distributed in the Palaearctic, Afrotropical, and Oriental Regions, and only a single species reported from the Australian Region (J.A. Lis 1996, 1999; Cassis & Gross 2002). This species, named Lactistes obesipes, was described three times by Signoret in three different papers (1879, 1880, 1881) from an unknown locality in Australia (firstly as “Nouvelle-Hollande”, then as “Australie”) on the basis of the same single female specimen.

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