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species Homoeocerus (Ornytoides) pallens (Fabricius, 1781)

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (45):
  • Fabricius. 1781. Species Insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. 2:363-364   >> Note: Original description. ST(S): tropical Africa >> Cimex pallens    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455732
  • Schneider. 1785. Nomenclator Entomologicus oder systematisches Nahmen-Verzeichniss der bis iezt bekannt bewordenen Insekten 30 >> Note: Listed >> Cimex pallens
  • Fabricius. 1787. Mantissa insectorum sistens species nuper detectas adjectis synonymis, observationibus, descriptionibus, emendationibus 2:299   >> Note: Description >> Cimex pallens
  • Gmelin. 1790. Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae 1(4):2171   >> Note: Description, rec. tropical Africa >> Cimex pallens
  • Fabricius. 1794. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus 4:152   >> Note: Description, rec. tropical Africa >> Lygaeus pallens    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455733
  • Weber. 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum Entomologiam Systematicum illustr. Fabricii, adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus 153 >> Note: Listed >> Lygaeus pallens
  • Turton. 1802. A general system of Nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals, systematically divided into their several classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, with their habitations, manners, economy, structure, and peculiarities, 1, Animal Kingdom; Vol. 2 Insects, Par 1802 659 >> Note: Description, rec. Africa >> Cimex pallens
  • Fabricius. 1803. Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, speciesadjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. 221   >> Note: Description, rec. equatorial Africa >> Lygaeus pallens
  • Herrich-Schäffer. 1853. Die wanzenartigen Insecten 9(8-9):117   >> Note: Catalogued, note, rec. Tropical America (sic). >> Lygaeus pallens
  • Stål. 1869. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. (N.F.) 8(1):122 >> Note: Generic placement unknown >> Homoeocerus pallens    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455734
  • Stål. 1873. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 11(2):58   >> Note: Catalogued (=Coreus alternans Westwood), in partial key, loc. Nigeria, rec. Sierra Leone >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Distant. 1890. P.Z.S. 1890:478   >> Note: Synonymy, loc. Democratic Republic of the Congo >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Horváth. 1893. Természetrajzi Füzetek 15:260   >> Note: Compared with new species H. fuscicornis >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Karsch. 1894. Ent.Zeit.Stettin 55(4-6):104   >> Note: Loc. Cameroun >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:37   >> Note: Catalogued (=alternans), Guinea >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Haglund. 1895. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 52(7):451   >> Note: Description of male and female from dirty, damaged specimens, NE Cameroon >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Distant. 1901. P.Z.S. 1901(1):335   >> Note: Catalogued (=Coreus alternans Westwood) >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Schouteden. 1910. In Sjoestedt [Ed.]. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 2(12):155   >> Note: Loc. Tanzania >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Schouteden. 1911. Revue Zool. afr. 1(2):187   >> Note: Locs Belgian Congo >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Schumacher. 1912. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 6(2):318 >> Note: Loc. Cameroun >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Bergroth. 1913. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 57:238   >> Note: Listed, Central African Republic >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • García Varela. 1913. Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Serie Zoológica 12:22 >> Note: Synonymy (=alternans), recs Cameroun, Dahomey >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Schouteden. 1913. Revue Zool. afr. 2(2):199   >> Note: Locs Belgian Congo >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Schouteden. 1929. Rev.Zool.Bot.afric, Brussels 17:70 >> Note: Loc. Belgian Congo, Note >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Mayné & Ghesquière. 1934. Annales de Gembloux 40(1):4, 13 >> Note: Figure of adult habitus d.v.[plate 1 fig. 4]; rec. Belgian Congo; larvae feed only on species of Albizzia (Mimosaceae) but adults are polyphagous pests, on Albizzia lebbek, A. welwitschii, A. angolensis, occasional pest of fruits of cocoa and cotton >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Blöte. 1936. Zoölogische Mededeelingen 19:54-56   >> Note: Notes, as type species of new subgenus Ornytopsis, synonymy (=alternans); loc. Liberia >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Blöte. 1938. Zoölogische Mededeelingen, Leiden 20(25):258, 260, 263-264   >> Note: Compared with new species H. freynei, H. ignotus; note; locs Belgian Congo >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Schouteden. 1943. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 37:326 >> Note: Loc. Cameroun >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Schouteden. 1948. Exploration du Parc National Albert. Mission G.F. de Witte (1933-1935)(56):12 >> Note: Note; loc. Belgian Congo >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Villiers. 1949. Catalogues. Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 5:83 >> Note: Locs French Guinea, locs Ivory Coast >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Villiers. 1950. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire A 12:936 >> Note: Locs Liberia >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Risbec. 1950. Travaux du Laboratoire d’Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques 1:131, 411-412 >> Note: Description; polyphagous, on Pennisetum, Hibiscus esculentus, Acacia seyal; recs Belgian Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, loc. Ivory Coast; parasites: Paralitomastix homoeoceri Risbec (Encyrtidae), Anastatus apantalesi var. nezarae Risbec (Eupelmidae), Elachertus sp. (Elachertidae), Hadronotus charon Nixon (Scelionidae). >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Risbec. 1950. Travaux du Laboratoire d’Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques 2:595 >> Note: Host of Hadronotus charon Nixon (Scelionidae). >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Risbec. 1951. Trabalhos Conferência Internacional dos Africanistas Occidentais Bissau, 1947. 2nd conference Vol. 3:251-253 >> Note: Description of egg and nymph; figures of egg d.v., l.v.[Figs 5, 6]; rec. Senegal, distributiuon: widespread in Africa; on wild plants and ‘mil,’ eggs parasitised by Proctotrupidae, Chalcididae >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Villiers. 1952. Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Afrique Noire A 14(4):1201 >> Note: Loc. Togo, locs Dahomey >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Villiers. 1952. Initiations Africaines IX. Hémiptères de l’Afrique Noire (Punaises et Cigales) 101 >> Note: Description; figure of adult habitus d.v.[Fig. 130]; distribution: western and central Africa >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Villiers. 1953. Mémoires de l’Institut Français d’Afrique Noire 19:300 >> Note: Locs French Guinea >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Villiers. 1954. Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Afrique Noire A 16(3):915 >> Note: Locs French Guinea >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Forsyth. 1966. Agricultural insects of Ghana 69 >> Note: Rec. Ghana; on fruit of Citrus, adults on leaves of Manihot esculentus,on foliage of Nicotiana tabacum, on pods of Theobroma cacao >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Fain. 1970. Revue Zool.Bot.afr. 82:315-334 >> Note: Host of Coreitarsonemus schmitzi Fain (Acari) in Zaire >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Villiers. 1973. Bull. Inst. Fond. Afr. Noire 35(2):398 >> Note: Locs Congo (Brazzaville) >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Youdeowei. 1973. Turrialba 23:164, 167 >> Note: Rec. Nigeria; on cocoa farms, notes, feeding on young fruits and pods of cacao >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Linnavuori. 1978. Acta Zool.Fenn. 153:15 >> Note: Figures of details of male genital capsule [Figs 9a,b] >> Homoeocerus pallens
  • Medler. 1980. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute Supplement 30:111 >> Note: Synonymy (=alternans); rec. Nigeria >> Homoeocerus (Homoeocerus) pallens
  • Nonveiller. 1984. Mémoires de l’Institut pour la Protection des Plantes 15:50 >> Note: Loc. Cameroun; on Hibiscus cannabinum, references to occurrence on Zea mais, panicles of Sorghum vulgare, Albizia sp., various countries, also pest of manioc, tabac, cacoyer with note on symptoms of attack on this plant, occasionally on coton, milky grains of riz and mil >> Homoeocerus pallens
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality:
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Status of type:  destroyed?
  • Location of type:  ZMUC Copenhagen

• synonym alternans (Westwood, 1842)

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