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species Thasus gigas (Klug, 1835)

• Common name(s):  Xamues
• Images:
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Ecological relationships:
  • Herbivore/Host Plant: Prosopis, Mesquite show more
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (31):
  • Klug. 1835. In Burmeister. Handbuch der Entomologie 338-339 >> Note: Original description. ST(S): Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453295
  • Brullé. 1835. Histoire naturelle des insectes 9:368   >> Note: Description, rec. Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Blanchard. 1840. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères 121-122   >> Note: Description, citations, Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum II:383   >> Note: Catalogued, Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Herrich-Schäffer. 1853. Die wanzenartigen Insecten Band 9:146 >> Note: Catalogued, synonymy, Mexico >> Pachylis gigas
  • Dohrn. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 24   >> Note: Catalogued, Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Stål. 1859. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 15(9-10):439   >> Note: Note. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Stål. 1862. Stettin. Entomol. Zeit. 23:275   >> Note: Citations, rec. Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Costa, A. 1864. Annuario R. Museo Zoologica della Università di Napoli 2:75   >> Note: Listed, Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Stål. 1865. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 5:174   >> Note: Generic placement in new genus Thasus. >> Thasus gigas    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:453294
  • Stål. 1870. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 9(1):132   >> Note: Catalogued, Mexico. >> Thasus gigas
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:52   >> Note: In key, catalogued, loc. Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Wood. 1874. Insects abroad 721-723, figs 463, 464   >> Note: Description and habitus figures d.v. of adult and nymph, rec. Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Distant. 1881. In Godman & Salvin [Ed.]. Biologia Centrali-Americana 1:108, plate 10 figs 18, 19   >> Note: Listed, citations, variation, figures of adult female and male habitus d.v., locs USA, rec. Mexico. >> Thasus gigas
  • Uhler. 1884. In Kingsley. The Standard Natural History. Vol. II. Crustacea and Insects 291, fig. 335   >> Note: Description of adult and nymph, figure of adult habitus d.v., feeds on various kinds of cactus, loc. USA, rec. Mexico. >> Pachylis gigas
  • Distant. 1890. In Godman & Salvin. Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Zoology 1:351-352 >> Note: Locs Mexico, reference to observations of Dugès, 1876, q.v. above. >> Thasus gigas
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:14   >> Note: Catalogued, Mexico, locs USA. >> Thasus gigas
  • Wilson. 1909. Journal of Experimental Zoology 6:91 >> Pachylis gigas
  • Van Duzee. 1923. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4 12(11):132   >> Note: Larvae clustered on leaves of mesquite, loc. Mexico. >> Thasus gigas
  • Blöte. 1938. Zoölogische Mededeelingen, Leiden 20(25):303   >> Note: Loc. Mexico, loc. USA. >> Thasus gigas
  • Gibson, W.W. & J.L. Carrillo. 1959. Folleto Misceláneo 9:24 >> Note: Catalogued; >> Thasus gigas
  • Schaefer, C. W. & O'Shea. 1979. Ann.Ent.Soc.Amer. 72:521 >> Note: Foodplants; >> Thasus gigas
  • O'Shea. 1980. Stud.Neotrop.Fauna Environ. 15:213, 219, figs 30, 31   >> Note: Figures of paramere, aedeagus, listed, Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico. >> Thasus gigas
  • Schaefer, C. W. & P.L. Mitchell. 1983. Ann.Ent.Soc.Amer. 76(4):600   >> Note: Foodplants; >> Thasus gigas
  • Manna. 1984. In Sharma, A.K. & A. Sharma [Ed.]. Chromosomes in Evolution of Eukaryotic Groups, Volume II 194 >> Thasus gigas
  • Brailovsky, C. W. Schaefer, Barrera & Packauskas. 1994. J. New York Entom. Soc. 102(3):319, 320, 322-326, 329-330   >> Note: Citation, description, in key to species of Thasus, figures [figs 3, 9, 18-20, 24, 33] of adult habitus d.v., antenna, male and female posterior leg, paramere (two views), spermatheca, locs Mexico, loc. El Salvador, records from USA referred to T. neocalifornicus, relationships, notes on biology: on Prosopis laevigata, nymphs very gregarious, adults less so, relationships. >> Thasus gigas
  • Brailovsky, Barrera, Mayorga & Ortega Leon. 1994. An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Auton. Mex. Ser. Zool. 65(2):247   >> Thasus gigas
  • Brailovsky, Mayorga, León & Barrera. 1995. Publicaciones Especiales. Instituto de Biología, UNAM 66:73   >> Thasus gigas
  • Schaefer, C. W. & Packauskas. 1998[1997]. J. New York Entom. Soc. 105:206-208, 212, fig. 6   >> Note: Loc. Guatemala, locs Mexico, variation, in key to fifth-instar nymphs of Thasus acutangulus, gigas, neocalifornicus and genus Pachylis, biometrics of nymphs, figure of adult pronotum d.v. >> Thasus gigas
  • Forbes & C. W. Schaefer. 2003. J. New York Entom. Soc. 111(4):239   >> Thasus gigas
  • Packauskas. 2010. Fort Hays Studies 5:188 >> Note: Catalogued (New World); Distribution (El Salvador, Mexico); >> Thasus gigas
• Scrutiny:
  • Dolling, 2011, All citations of this nominal species from USA are cited under T. neocalifornicus.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality:
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  ZMHB Berlin Mus.

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