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species Melucha gladiator (Fabricius, 1803)

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• Distribution:
  •  Brazil, Peru
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (12):
  • Fabricius. 1803. Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, speciesadjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. 207   >> Note: Original description. STS: 2 exx (+1 ex.?), in America meridionali. Dom. Smidt Mus. Dom. Lund; ZMUC Copenhagen (Zimsen, 1964: 323). >> Lygaeus gladiator    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453310
  • Thunberg. 1823. D.D. Fauna Americae Meridionalis 3:1 >> Note: Listed, S America. >> Lygaeus gladiator
  • Dohrn. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 26   >> Note: Catalogued, Brazil. Generic placement queried. >> Melucha gladiator    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453309
  • Stål. 1868. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 7(11):46-47   >> Note: Synonymy, description, S America, note. >> Melucha gladiator
  • Stål. 1869. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. (N.F.) 8(1):121 >> Note: Generic placement. >> Melucha gladiator
  • Stål. 1870. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 9(1):133   >> Note: Catalogued (=Melucha cinnamomea Dallas, 1852), N Brazil >> Melucha gladiator
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:54   >> Note: In key, catalogued (=cinnamomeus), loc. Brazil. >> Melucha gladiator
  • Distant. 1892. In Godman & Salvin [Ed.]. Biologia Centrali-Americana 1:353   >> Note: Compared with new species M. bicolor. >> Melucha gladiator
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:15   >> Note: Catalogued (=cinnamomea), N. Brazil. >> Melucha gladiator
  • Blöte. 1938. Zoölogische Mededeelingen, Leiden 20(25):304   >> Note: Loc. Brazil, loc. Peru. >> Melucha gladiator
  • O'Shea. 1980. Stud.Neotrop.Fauna Environ. 15:201, 204, figs 7, 8   >> Note: Figures of paramere, aedeagus, listed (=cinnamomea), N Brazil. >> Melucha gladiator
  • Packauskas. 2010. Fort Hays Studies 5:163 >> Note: Catalogued (=cinnamomea); Distribution (Brazil, Peru); >> Melucha gladiator
• Type specimen information:
  • There are multiple primary types, see specimen data for details.

• synonym cinnamomea Dallas, 1852

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