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genus Leptoscelis Laporte, 1833

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (32):
  • Laporte. 1833. Mag. Zoo. 2:25,31   >> Note: Original description, in key, Type species by original monotypy: Lygaeus haemorrhidalis Fabricius, 1798 [=Cimex bipustulatus Linaeus, 1758]. >> Leptoscelis    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:457679
  • Spinola. 1837. Essai sur les genres d'insectes appartenants à l'ordre des Hémiptères, Lin. ou Rhyngotes, Fab. et à la section des Hétéropères, Dufour 217, table 13   >> Note: Distribution, in key, example: Lygaeus haemmorroidalis [sic], systematic position. >> Leptoscelis
  • Westwood. 1837. In Drury. Illustrations of exotic entomology. New Edition Vol. 1:92,101 >> Note: Headings, synonymy (=Anisoscelis, Lygaeus in part), allied to Hypselopus. >> Leptoscelis
  • Drapiez. 1839. Dictionnaire classique des sciences naturelles Vol. 6:348 >> Note: Description, notes >> Leptoscelis
  • Westwood. 1842. A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 2:4 >> Note: Heading in catalogue of OXUM Oxford, synonymy (=Anisoscelis in part). >> Leptoscelis
  • Agassiz. 1843. Nomenclator zoologicus. (with G.F. Erichson & E.F. Germar) Nomina systematica generum Hemipterorum 11 >> Note: Catalogued, etymology, systematic position >> Leptoscelis
  • Amyot & Serville. 1843. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères 219   >> Note: Description, synonymy (=Cimex in part, Lygaeus in part, Coreus in part, Anisoscelis in part), etymology >> Leptoscelis
  • Herrich-Schäffer. 1850. Die wanzenartigen Insecten 9:244   >> Note: In key >> Leptoscelis
  • Spinola. 1850. Tavola sinottica dei generi spettanti alla classe degli Insetti Artroidignati, Flemiptera [sic], Linn. Latr. – Rhyngota, Fab. – Rhynchota, Burm. 80 >> Note: In key >> Leptoscelis
  • Herrich-Schäffer. 1851. Die wanzenartigen Insecten 9:276   >> Note: Notes, description >> Leptoscelis
  • Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum II:450,455   >> Note: In key, citations >> Leptoscelis
  • Herrich-Schäffer. 1853. Die wanzenartigen Insecten 9(8-9):109-110   >> Note: Catalogued (=Lygaeus in part, Coreus in part, Anisoscelis in part, Rhabdocoris), catalogue of species >> Leptoscelis
  • Chenu & Desmarest. 1859. Encyclopédie d’Histoire Naturelle ou traité complet de cette science. Annelés. 213 >> Note: Systematic position >> Leptoscelis
  • Dohrn. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 27   >> Note: Catalogue of world species >> Leptoscelis
  • Baerensprung. 1860. Berl. Entomol. Zeit 1860 4:7 >> Note: Heading, catalogue of European species >> Leptoscelis
  • Stål. 1860[1859]. Öfvers.K.VetenskAkad.Förh.Stockh 16:458   >> Note: Notes >> Leptoscelis
  • Stål. 1860[1858]. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 2(7):32   >> Note: Heading >> Leptoscelis
  • Stål. 1862. Stettin. Entomol. Zeit. 23:294   >> Note: In key, species listed >> Leptoscelis
  • Stål. 1868[1867]. Öfvers.K.VetenskAkad.Förh.Stockh 24(7):545   >> Note: In key >> Leptoscelis
  • Stål. 1868. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 7(11):53   >> Note: Key to species >> Leptoscelis
  • Stål. 1870. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 9(1):167-169   >> Note: Compared with new genus Microphyllia, catalogued, catalogue of species with partial key. >> Leptoscelis
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:122,132-134   >> Note: In key, citations, catalogue of species >> Leptoscelis
  • Walker, F. 1873. Catalogue of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the British Museum. Supplement 39 >> Note: Additions to catalogue of species >> Leptoscelis
  • Distant. 1881. In Godman & Salvin [Ed.]. Biologia Centrali-Americana 1:127   >> Note: Citations, characters, compared with Phthia, distribution: Neotropical, account of Central American species >> Leptoscelis
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:50-51   >> Note: Catalogued, catalogue of species >> Leptoscelis
  • Pittier & Biolley. 1895. Anales del Instituto Fisico-geográfica y del Museo Nacional de Costa Rica 5(1893):16 >> Note: Catalogued, catalogue of Costa Rican species including one unidentified. >> Leptoscelis
  • Kirkaldy. 1901. Entomologist, London 34(457):177   >> Note: Catalogued with type species haemorrhoidalis >> Leptoscelis
  • Bergroth. 1913. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22:143   >> Note: Additions to catalogue of species >> Leptoscelis
  • Froeschner. 1981. Heteroptera or True Bugs of Ecuador: A Partial Catalog 23   >> Leptoscelis
  • Froeschner. 1999. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 61:45 >> Leptoscelis
  • Packauskas. 2008. Zootaxa 1696:63-66   >> Note: Tribal placement: accepted in Anisoscelini as consequence of synonymy Anisoscelini (=Leptoscelini), relationships with other genera of Anisoscelini. >> Leptoscelis
  • Packauskas. 2010. Fort Hays Studies 5:71 >> Note: Catalogued (New World); >> Leptoscelis
• Scrutiny:
  • Dolling, 2011, Leptoscelis species removed from Coreoidea: [Leptoscelis ? claviger (Goeze, 1778): Herrich-Schaeffer, 1853a: 110. Catalogued (=Drury, 1770: plate 45 fig. 5). – see Triatoma rubrofasciata (De Geer, 1773), Reduviidae.]
• Type species:  Lygaeus haemorrhoidalis Fabricius (= Leptoscelis bipustulatus), by original monotypy
• The first family-group name based on this genus is Leptoscelidida Stål, 1868.

• synonym Leptoscèle
• species bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• synonym 2-pustulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• synonym balteatus (De Geer, 1773)
• synonym baltheatus (Lichtenstein, 1796)
• synonym bipustulatus (Lichtenstein, 1796)
• synonym haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius, 1803)
• synonym haemorrhous (Linnaeus, 1763)
• species bisbimaculata Breddin, 1906
• species centralis (Walker, 1871)
• species conspicuus Brailovsky & Barrera, 2012
• species divisa Stål, 1860
• species egregia Stål, 1865
• synonym luteiceps (Walker, 1871)
• species elongator (Fabricius, 1803)
• synonym flavipes (Burmeister, 1835)
• synonym fumata Stål, 1862
• synonym infumatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1831)
• species excellens Stål, 1865
• species fasciifera Stål, 1865
• synonym hypselonotoides Walker, 1871
• species flaviventris Blöte, 1936
• species guttula Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
• synonym guttata Dallas, 1852
• species limbativentris Breddin, 1901
• species majesticus Brailovsky & Barrera, 2011
• species matronalis Breddin, 1903
• species militaris Distant, 1901
• species nigripes Stål, 1870
• species obscura Dallas, 1852
• species pallida Stål, 1870
• species quadrisignatus (Distant, 1881)
• species ribesi Brailovsky & Barrera, 2011
• species saepifera Breddin, 1901
• species serrata Signoret, 1862
• species tricolor Westwood, 1842
• species varipes Walker, 1871
• species venosa Walker, 1871

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