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species Mictis formidabilis Distant, 1918

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations:
  • Distant. 1918. In Shipley & G.A.K. Marshall [Ed.]. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Vol. 7. (Homoptera: appendix; Heteroptera: addenda) 151-152   >> Note: Original description; allied to M. lateralis; STS: male, female, numbers not indicated, Ceylon, Ratnapura, leg. E.E. Green; BMNH London >> Mictis formidabilis    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:451992
  • O'Shea & C. W. Schaefer. 1980. Oriental Insects 14(2):230 >> Note: Listed; rec. Sri Lanka >> Mictis formidabilis
• Scrutiny:
  • Dolling, 2010, Distant, 1918b claimed that his new species was ‘allied to M. lateralis Walk. from Borneo.’ Mictis lateralis was regarded by O’Shea & Schaefer, 1980 as a species of Aspilosterna but they retained M. formidabilis in Mictis
• Type specimen information:
  • There are multiple primary types, see specimen data for details.

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