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genus Melucha Amyot & Serville, 1843

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (20):
  • Amyot & Serville. 1843. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères 195   >> Note: Original description, etymology. Type species by original monotypy: Melucha lineicollis Amyot & Serville, 1843 [=Cerbus phyllocnemis Burmeister, 1835]. >> Melucha    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453302
  • Signoret. 1847. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 301   >> Note: Note. >> Melucha
  • Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum II:378, 385-386   >> Note: In key, synonymy (=Lygaeus in part, Cerbus in part, Nematopus in part, Physomerus Spinola, 1837, Spathophora in part.), catalogue of species. >> Melucha
  • Dohrn. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 24   >> Note: Catalogue of world species. >> Melucha
  • Stål. 1868[1867]. Öfvers.K.VetenskAkad.Förh.Stockh 24(7):538   >> Note: In key. >> Melucha
  • Stål. 1870. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 9(1):133-134   >> Note: Catalogued (=Physomerus Spinola, Stenophyllopus), catalogue of species with partial key. >> Melucha
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:43, 54-57   >> Note: Synonymy, key to American species, catalogue of species. >> Melucha
  • Uhler. 1886. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 10   >> Note: Catalogue of Nearctic species. >> Melucha
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:14-15   >> Note: Catalogued (=Physomerus Spinola, Stenophyllopus Costa), catalogue of species. >> Melucha
  • Kirkaldy. 1903. Entomologist, London 36(484):231   >> Note: Catalogued with type species lineicollis (=phyllocnemis), synonymy of Physomerus [Burmeister] 1835 [in error for Spinola, 1837]. >> Melucha
  • Bergroth. 1913. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22:144   >> Note: Catalogued; >> Melucha
  • O'Shea & C. W. Schaefer. 1978. Ann.Ent.Soc.Amer. 71(5):783 >> Note: Listed in tribe Nematopodini. >> Melucha
  • O'Shea. 1980. Stud.Neotrop.Fauna Environ. 15:198, 203-205, 221-224   >> Note: Synonymy (=Stenophyllopus), description, in key to genera of Nematopodini, notes, compared with Thasus, list of included species, phylogenetic relationships. >> Melucha
  • Froeschner. 1981. Heteroptera or True Bugs of Ecuador: A Partial Catalog 23   >> Melucha
  • Brailovsky. 1987. J. New York Entom. Soc. 95(4):519, 523   >> Note: Compared with new genus Meluchamixia, in key to genera related to Thasus and Melucha. >> Melucha
  • Brailovsky. 1995. Pan-Pac. Entomol. 71:218   >> Note: Compared with new genus Tovarocoris. >> Melucha
  • Froeschner. 1999. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 61:45 >> Melucha
  • Brailovsky. 2002. J. New York Entom. Soc. 110(3-4):342   >> Note: Compared with new genus Papeocoris. >> Melucha
  • Packauskas. 2010. Fort Hays Studies 5:162-164 >> Note: Catalogued (=Physomerus sensu Spinola, 1837, Stenophyllopus with type species Stenophyllopus nigrocinctus Costa, 1863) with type species Melucha lineicollis Amyot & Serville, 1843, catalogue of species. >> Melucha
  • Brailovsky & Barrera. 2014. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (N.F.) 61(1):15-22   >> Note: Two new species described. Melucha quadrivittis Stål, 1862 resurrected from synonymy under M. phyllocnemis (Burmeister, 1835). M. ruficornis Breddin, 1903 synonymised under M. lineatella (Fabricius, 1803). Identification key for Melucha species. New distributional records. >> Melucha
• Type species:  Melucha lineicollis Amyot & Serville (= phyllocnemis), by original monotypy
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Physomerus Spinola, 1837
• synonym Stenophyllopus Costa, 1863
• species aculeata Montandon, 1895
• species acutispina Breddin, 1903
• species bicolor Distant, 1892
• species biolleyi Distant, 1900
• species chapadana Brailovsky, 1993
• species dilatata (Fabricius, 1798)
• species gladiator (Fabricius, 1803)
• synonym cinnamomea Dallas, 1852
• species grandicula Brailovsky & Barrera, 2014
• species lineatella (Fabricius, 1803)
• synonym nigrocinctus (Costa, 1863)
• synonym ruficornis Breddin, 1903
• species perampla Brailovsky & Barrera, 2014
• species phyllocnemis (Burmeister, 1835)
• synonym lineatocollis (Spinola, 1837)
• synonym lineicollis Amyot & Serville, 1843
• species quadrivittis Stål, 1862
• species quinquelineata Stål, 1865

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