Plinthisus woodwardi

Plinthisus woodwardi (female, length about 3mm)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lygaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Paraneoptera Superordo: Condylognatha Ordo: Hemiptera Subordo: Heteroptera Infraordo: Pentatomomorpha Superfamilia: Lygaeoidea

Familia: Rhyparochromidae
Subfamilia: Plinthisinae
Genus: Plinthisus
Subgenus: P. (Locutius)
Species: Plinthisus woodwardi

Name

Plinthisus woodwardi Slater & Sweet, 1977

• Original genus: Plinthisus Westwood, 1829
• Original status: valid species
• Primary type: holotype
  • Fixation: designated
  • Description: [adult] 'brachypterous male'
  • Repository: SAMA
• Type locality: 'Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia'

References

• Slater, J.A. & Sweet, M.H. 1977. The genus Plinthisus Stephens in the Australian region (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Entomologica scandinavica 8(2): 109–152. DOI: 10.1163/187631277X00189 Reference page.  [115, figs. A, 5, 18, 20, 29, 42, 50, original description (female, male, brachypterous, macropterous, immature)]
• Emberson, R.; Syrett, P.; Groenteman, R. 2011: Bankside Scientific Reserve - an important refuge for Canterbury's dryland insect fauna. Weta, 41: 4–26.

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