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species Mictis profana (Fabricius, 1803)

• Common name(s):  Crusader bug
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (44):
  • Fabricius. 1803. Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, speciesadjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. 211   >> Note: Original description; ST(S): Amboina >> Lygaeus profanus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455023
  • Latreille. 1829. In Cuvier. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'Introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Nouvelle édition 5:197 >> Note: Generic position; note >> Anisoscelis profanus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455024
  • Gray. 1832. In Griffith & Pidgeon [Ed.]. The class Insecta arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions to each order by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon, and notices of new genera and species by George Gray 2:782   >> Note: Habitus figure [Pl. 68 fig. 9]; descriptive note >> Anisoscelis profanus
  • Brullé. 1835. Histoire naturelle des insectes 9:367-368   >> Note: Description; synonymy (=Mictis crucifera Leach); rec. East Indies >> Anisoscelis (Mictis) profanus
  • Latreille. 1836. In Cuvier. Le règne animal distribué d’après son organisation. 3rd edition 3:121 (footnote) >> Note: Note >> Anisoscelis profanus
  • Voigt. 1839. Das Thierreich, geordnet nach seiner Organisation 373 (footnote) >> Note: Note >> Anisoscelis profanus
  • Drapiez. 1841. Dictionnaire classique des sciences naturelles Vol. 7:351   >> Note: Description; notes; rec. Amboina >> Mictis profanus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455025
  • Westwood. 1842. A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 2:4, 10 >> Note: Listed; synonymy (=crucifera); variation in colour; recs Amboina, Melville Island, Tasmania, Timor >> Mictis profana
  • Amyot & Serville. 1843. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères 190   >> Note: Synonymy (=crucifera); systematic position >> Mictis profanus
  • Signoret. 1851. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 9:122   >> Note: Note on abdominal tubercles >> Mictis profana
  • Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum II:404   >> Note: Catalogued (=crucifera Leach, crucifer Herrich-Schaeffer, abdominalis Guérin-Méneville); rec. Australia >> Mictis profana
  • Montrouzier. 1855. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et de l'Industrie, publiées de la Société d'Agriculture, etc., de Lyon 2 7:102-103 >> Note: Description; Woodlark Island, New Caledonia; on Mimosa >> Nematopus profanus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455026
  • Montrouzier. 1858. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon Sér. 2 5:254 >> Note: Note; recs New Caledonia, Woodlark Island >> Noematopus profanus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455027
  • Dohrn. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 24   >> Note: Catalogued (=crucifera, abdominalis); Australia >> Mictis profana
  • Montrouzier. 1861. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 1:66   >> Note: Note; recs New Caledonia, Australia >> Mictis profanus
  • Mayr. 1866. In Grunow, Krempelhuber, Reichardt, Mettenius & Fenzl. Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wällerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil, Zweiter Band, 1. Abtheilung, B. Part 2. 82   >> Note: Synonymy (=crucifera, abdominalis); loc. Australia >> Mictis profana
  • Stål. 1869. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. (N.F.) 8(1):121 >> Note: Generic placement >> Mictis profanus
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:30   >> Note: Catalogued; rec. New Caledonia, loc. Australia >> Mictis profana
  • Stål. 1873. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 11(2):44, 45   >> Note: Catalogued (=crucifera, abdominalis); in partial key; variation; compared with M. caja; recs Australia, Fiji, Woodlark Island, Ceram >> Mictis profana
  • Riley & Howard. 1890. Insect Life 2:336 >> Note: Reference to paper by Koebele noting injury to Orange (Citrus aurantia, Rutaceae) in Australia >> Mictis profana
  • Tryon. 1892. Annals of the Queensland Museum 2:21 >> Note: Variation; locs Papua New Guinea, loc. Australia >> Mictis profana
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:9-10   >> Note: Catalogued (=crucifera, abdominalis); Australia, Fiji, Woodlark I., Ceram, New Caledonia >> Mictis profana
  • Breddin. 1899. Mitt. Hamb. Zool. 16:169   >> Note: Compared with new species M. farinulenta >> Mictis profana
  • Breddin. 1900. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25(1):148   >> Note: Listed; recs Halmahera, Ternate, previous recs Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Murray, Sumbawa, Ceram >> Mictis profana
  • Distant. 1900. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 6:371   >> Note: Catalogued; synonymy (=Mictis symbolica Dallas, 1852, Mictis crux Dallas, 1852) >> Mictis profana
  • Horváth. 1900. Denkschriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Jena 8:634 >> Note: Synonymy (=crucifera, abdominalis); variation; recs New Guinea, Amboina >> Mictis profana
  • Kirkaldy. 1900. Entomologist 33:264 >> Note: Catalogued (=crucifera); nominal species crucifera is type species of Mictis >> Mictis profana
  • Kirkaldy. 1901. Entomologist, London 34(453):52 >> Note: Loc. Australia >> Mictis profana
  • Kirkaldy. 1905. Trans.Ent.Soc.London 1905(3):352 >> Note: Loc. New Caledonia, recs Loyalty Islands, Lifu, Australia, Woodlark I., New Caledonia, Viti, Samoa, San Cristoval ‘etc,’; quotes Montrouzier (hostplant: Mimosa) >> Mictis profanus
  • Schouteden. 1907. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 51:113 >> Note: Synonymy; depository of material of Montrouzier, 1955 >> Mictis profana
  • Kirkaldy. 1908. Proc.Linn.Soc.N.S.W. 33(2):352 >> Note: Listed; locs Fiji, recs Samoa, Solomon Islands, Lifu, Australia, Ceram, Murua [=Woodlark]; Samoan and Fijian material referred to variety crux >> Mictis profana
  • Distant. 1914. In Sarasin & Roux. Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln A. Zoologie 2(4):377   >> Note: Synonymy; distribution: Ceram, Woodlark I., Australia, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Fiji; locs New Caledonia (including Loyalty Is) >> Mictis profana
  • Bergroth. 1916. Proc. R. Soc. Vict. 29:31   >> Note: Loc. Australia >> Mictis profana
  • Horváth. 1919. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 35(3):309 >> Note: Locs Aru, Key; Note on coloration of Aru and Key Is; distribution: Celebes to Australian region >> Mictis profana
  • Distant. 1920. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9 6:148   >> Note: Loc. New Caledonia >> Mictis profana
  • China. 1930. Insects of Samoa 2(3):83, 95 >> Note: Synonymy (=crucifera, abdominalis, crux); locs Western Samoa, American Samoa, distribution: Austro-Oriental and Australasian, recs New Caledonia, Loyalty Is, New Hebrides, Friendly Is, Fiji >> Mictis profana
  • Hoffmann, W.E. 1933. Lingnan Science Journal 12:98 >> Note: Damage to grape vine (Vitis vinifera, Vitaceae) and Orange (Citrus sinensis, Rutaceae) in Australia and Fiji >> Mictis profana
  • Schouteden. 1933. In Van Stralen. Résultats scientifiques du voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises de LL AA RR le Prince et la Princesse Léopold de Belgique. Mém. Mus. Royal Hist. Nat. Belg. (Hors Sér.). 4(fascicule 8):53-54 >> Note: Variation; loc. Halmahera >> Mictis profana
  • Blöte. 1937. Temminckia 2:297-298 >> Note: Locs and recs Australia, Celebes, Ternate, Halmaheira, Batjan (Moluccas), Salayer, Talaut, Sumbawa, Flores, Great Bastaard, Timor, Wetter, ‘India’ (queried, Sumatra, Amboina, Adonara, Flores, Tidore >> Mictis profana
  • Dispons. 1963. Bull.Soc.Sci.nat.Laos 6:23 >> Note: Note on distribution >> Mictis profana
  • O'Shea & C. W. Schaefer. 1980. Oriental Insects 14(2):226, 230 >> Note: Figure of inflated aedeagus l.v. [Fig. 4]; listed; synonymy (=abdominalis, crucifera, crux, symbolica, with note on abdominalis); recs Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, British Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa >> Mictis profana
  • Flanagan. 1994. Aus. J. Entom 33(2):111–114 >> Mictis profana
  • Brailovsky. 2002. Pan-Pac. Entomol. 78(2):110-111 >> Note: In key to species Sulawesi; descriptive note; distribution (from published recs) >> Mictis profana
  • Tatarnic & J.R. Spence. 2013. Aus. J. Entom 52(2):151–155 >> Mictis profana
• Scrutiny:
  • Dolling, 2010, O’Shea & Schaefer, 1980: 230 note that Blöte, 1938 regarded abdominalis as a good species; in fact, Blöte regarded it as a variety of profana but did regard both crux and symbolica as good species

• synonym abdominalis (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)
• synonym crucifera Leach, 1814
• synonym crux Dallas, 1852
• synonym symbolica Dallas, 1852

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