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species Clavigralla tomentosicollis Stål, 1855

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is tomenticollis)
• Common name(s):  Bean Bug; Spiny Brown Bug; Cowpea pod-sucking bug; Ysterbek
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Pest species;
• Ecological relationships:
  • Herbivore/Host Plant: Phaseolus, bean/wild bean show more
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (28):
  • Stål. 1855. Öfvers.K.VetenskAkad.Förh.Stockh 12:31   >> Note: Original Description; Distribution (South Africa); >> Clavigralla tomenticollis
  • Dohrn. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 30   >> Note: Catalogued; South Africa >> Clavigralla tomenticollis incorrect original spelling
  • Stål. 1865. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 5:107   >> Note: Emendation >> Clavigralla tomentosicollis    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:452127
  • Walker, F. 1872. Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum(5):4   >> Note: Catalogued; loc. South Africa >> Clavigralla tomenticollis incorrect original spelling
  • Stål. 1873. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 11(2):82   >> Note: New combination >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Gerstaecker. 1892. JB.Hamb.Anst. 9(2):49 >> Note: Loc. East Africa >> Clavigralla tomentosicollis
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:91   >> Note: Catalogued; South Africa >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Kirkaldy. 1902. Entomologist, London 35(475):316 >> Note: Synonymy (=tomentosicollis) >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis incorrect original spelling
  • Schouteden. 1912. Revue Zool. afr. 2(1):111   >> Note: Listed; loc. South Africa >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Hesse. 1925. Annals of the South African Museum 23(1):55   >> Note: Loc. Namibia >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Paoli. 1934. Prodromo di Entomologia Agraria della Somalia Italiana 62 >> Note: Damages Vicia faba, not reported from Somalia >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Villiers. 1952. Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Afrique Noire A 14(4):1203 >> Note: Loc. Dahomey >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Villiers. 1954. Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Afrique Noire A 16(3):916 >> Note: Loc. French Guinea >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Schouteden. 1957. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge. Zoologie Sciences zoologiques 58:309, 310 >> Note: Compared with new species A. ruandana; loc. Rwanda >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Le Pelley. 1959. Agricultural insects of East Africa 48 >> Note: Recs Kenya, Tanzania, including Zanzibar, Uganda, on Cajanus cajan pods, on Lablab niger, Phaseolus vulgaris, Ipomoea batatas >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Izzard. 1960. In Hanström, Brinck & Rudebeck. South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Stockholm. 482 >> Note: Loc. South Africa [misidentification] >> Acanthomia brevirostris
  • Izzard. 1960. In Hanström, Brinck & Rudebeck. South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Stockholm. 482 >> Note: Loc. Namibia, loc. South Africa, recs Tanzania mainland, Zanzibar, Sudan, Ghana >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Gentry. 1965. United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Agriculture Handbook 273:154 >> Note: Loc. Ethiopia, rec. southern Africa; vernacular name ‘beanbug,’ feeds on pods of beans (Fabaceae), heavy damage in Ethiopia >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Bohlen. 1973. Crop pests in Tanzania and their control 95 >> Note: Rec. Tanzania; description and figure of habitus of adult, very important pest of French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), Green gram (P. aureus), Black gram (P. mungo), Lubia (Dolichos lablab), Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Villiers. 1973. Bull. Inst. Fond. Afr. Noire 35(2):405 >> Note: Loc. Congo (Brazzaville) >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Linnavuori. 1978. Acta Zool.Fenn. 153:34 >> Note: Locs Sudan >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Dolling. 1979. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 39(1):63-64,66-69   >> Note: Combination Revived (Figures 187-188,191-202) >> Clavigralla tomentosicollis
  • Linnavuori. 1980. Act. Ent. Fenn. 36:30 >> Note: In loc. table Sudan; Acanthocoris (sic, lapsus) tomentosicollis >> Acanthocoris tomentosicollis    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:458657
  • Medler. 1980. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute Supplement 30:110 >> Note: Rec. Nigeria >> Acanthomia tomentosicollis
  • Anonymous. 1983. Catalogue de la collection entomologique nationale du Niger 199 >> Note: Figure of adult habitus [Pl. 100, fig. 587]; loc. Niger; on Mil (=Pennisetum miliaceum), Sorgho (=Sorghum vulgare); Clavigraphia (sic) (Acanthomyia) (sic) tomensicollis (sic) >> Clavigralla tomentosicollis
  • Nonveiller. 1984. Mémoires de l’Institut pour la Protection des Plantes 15:50 >> Note: Loc. Cameroun; on Vigna unguiculata; references to occurrence in Nigeria, South Africa, East Africa, on V. unguiculata, Phaseolus vulgaris, Lablab niger, principal pest of Cajanus cajan >> Clavigralla tomentosicollis
  • Mitchell, P.L. 2000. In Schaefer, C. W. & Panizzi [Ed.]. Heteroptera of Economic Importance 350-353   >> Note: Distribution; life history; biology, rearing methods; damage to crops, control, egg parasites are Hadronotus gnidus Nixon (=Gryon gnidus), Anastatus sp., Ooencyrtus sp.,O. patriciae Subba Rao, O. kuvanae (Howard) adults parasitized by Alophora nasalis Bezzi at very low incidences >> Clavigralla tomentosicollis
  • Krüger & Deckert. 2016. Zootaxa 4114(1):57   >> Note: Distribution (Botswana); >> Clavigralla tomentosicollis

• synonym tomenticollis Stål, 1855

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