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species Plinachtus acicularis (Fabricius, 1803)

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• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (23):
  • Fabricius. 1803. Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, speciesadjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. 251   >> Note: Original description; STS: 2 exx India, Tranquebar; ZMUC Copenhagen >> Alydus acicularis    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455990
  • Herrich-Schäffer. 1853. Die wanzenartigen Insecten 9(8-9):8   >> Note: Catalogued; note; loc. India; Alydus?? acicularis >> Alydus acicularis
  • Dohrn. 1860. Stettin. Entomol. Zeit. 21:402 >> Note: Listed; Ceylon >> Plinachtus acicularis    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:455989
  • Stål. 1860[1859]. Öfvers.K.VetenskAkad.Förh.Stockh 16:470   >> Note: Listed; synonymy; India >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Stål. 1868. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 7(11):62   >> Note: Synonymy (=Leptoscelis ventralis Dallas, 1852); variation; rec. Ceylon >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Stål. 1869. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. (N.F.) 8(1):123 >> Note: Generic placement >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:135   >> Note: Catalogued (=ventralis); Ceylon >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Stål. 1873. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 11(2):76   >> Note: Catalogued; synonymy; loc. India, rec. Ceylon >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Kirby, W. F. 1891. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 24 149–150:92-93   >> Note: Synonymy (=ventralis); variation; rec. Ceylon >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:65   >> Note: Catalogued (=ventralis); recs India, Ceylon >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Distant. 1901. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 7(41):422, 432   >> Note: Catalogued (=Cletus conspicuus) >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Distant. 1902. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota 1 (Heteroptera) 391   >> Note: Synonymy (=Anisoscelis rufiventris Dallas, 1850, ventralis Dallas, 1852, conspicuus Walker, 1871); description; rec. Bhutan, loc. India, rec. Ceylon >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Bergroth. 1913. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22:151   >> Note: Catalogued (=rufiventris, conspicuus); India >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Distant. 1918. In Shipley & G.A.K. Marshall [Ed.]. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Vol. 7. (Homoptera: appendix; Heteroptera: addenda) 157   >> Note: Note: very variable species >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Usinger. 1946. Bulletin of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 189:12, 13, 24 >> Note: Loc. Guam, rec. India, locs French Polynesia (Gambier Is: Mangareva, Tubuai Is as Austral Is, Society Is); descriptive note; on Gymnosporia thompsonii (Celastraceae) >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Gross. 1963. Insects of Micronesia 7(7):358, 383-384   >> Note: Synonymy (=rufiventris, ventralis, conspicuus); description; recs India, Ceylon, locs Northern Mariana Islands (USA), locs Guam; on opiuma, Pithecellobium dulce (Fabaceae) >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Hsiao. 1963. Acta Entomologica Sinica 12:312 >> Note: Loc. China >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Hsiao. 1964. Acta Zoologica Sinica 16:94 >> Note: In key to species of Plinachtus China >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Hsiao. 1964. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Nankaiensis 5(1):30 >> Note: Identification China >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Hsiao, Zheng & S.Z. Ren. 1977. A handbook for the determination of the Chinese Hemiptera-Heteroptera 1:246 >> Note: Identification China; pl. 44 fig. 576 >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Ahmad, Shadab & Khan. 1977. Supplement of the Entomological Society of Karachi 2:14 >> Note: Figure of adult habitus d.v. [Fig. 8]; (as example of the genus, does not imply record from Pakistan or Bangladesh but see Ahmad & Rab, 2007) >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Dolling. 2006. In Aukema & Rieger [Ed.]. Catalogue of Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region 5:80 >> Note: Catalogued; Palaearctic >> Plinachtus acicularis
  • Ahmad & Rab. 2007. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 39(6):401-403 >> Note: Synonymy; description; compared with P. basalis (spelt once as basilis); figures of female habitus d.v., meso- and metasterna, metathoracic scent-gland auricle, female terminalia v.v. [Figs 1A-D]; loc. Pakistan; on Rosa sp >> Plinachtus acicularis
• Type specimen information:
  • There are multiple primary types, see specimen data for details.

• synonym conspicuus (Walker, 1871)
• synonym rufiventris (Dallas, 1850)
• synonym ventralis (Dallas, 1852)

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