Liorhyssus Stål, 1870

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Genus Liorhyssus Stål, 1870

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Type species

Lygaeus hyalinus Fabricius, 1794 .

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Lygaeus hyalinus Fabricius 1794: 168 (America Insulis).

Corizus (Liorhyssus) lugens (Stål) : Berg 1878: 188 (Corrientes); Pennington 1920: 16 ( Argentina); Pennington 1922: 167 (Buenos Aires, La Rioja); Bosq 1940: 402 (Patagonia) (Bold names refer to administrative provinces, departments or states of countries).

Liorhyssus lugens (syn. by Göllner-Scheiding 1976): Berg 1883: 254 (Buenos Aires: Tandil; Corrientes; Patagonia); Viana and Williner 1978: 75 (Córdoba: Carlos Paz).

Corizus lugens: Lethierry and Severin 1894: 118 (Patagonia) .

Liorhyssus hyalinus: Henry 1988: 660 ( Mexico to South America); Hradil et al. 2007: 58 (Misiones: Puerto Iguazú); Carpintero and de Biase 2011: 42 (Buenos Aires: Isla Martin García); Cornelis et al. 2012: 84 (La Pampa: Santa Rosa); Dellapé and Carpintero 2012: 133 (Buenos Aires: Tandil, Parque Independencia); Pall and Coscarón 2012: 1457 (Corrientes; Patagonia).

Material examined

ARGENTINA: 1♀, in grapes, intercepted in New York, 28-V-[19]36 ( USNM); 1♀ same data, 24-V-[19]35 ( USNM); 1♂, 1♀, in grape packing, intercepted in New York, 8-V-[19]36 ( USNM); Buenos Aires: 1♀, Tigre, Delta, 7-IV-1927, swept in orchard, M . Kisliuk collector (col.) ( USNM); 1♀, 24-XI-1038, C .H . Richardson col., H.M. Harris collection (coll.) ( USNM); 1♀, 23- XI-1938, C .J . Drake col., H.M. Harris coll . ( USNM); 2♂, 1♀, La Colina, 9-XII-1938, C .J . Drake col., H.M. Harris coll . ( USNM); 1♂, La Plata, 20-IV-1927, M . Kisliuk col . ( USNM); Catamarca: 1♀, Saujil, 6-VI-1927, on weeds, M . Kisliuk col . ( USNM); Jujuy: 1♀, Tilcara, 8-V-1928, swept in orchard, M . Kisliuk col . ( USNM); Mendoza: 1♀, Uspallata, 13-III-1940, Bosq coll .( MLP); Misiones: 3♂, 2♀, Parque Provincial Urugua-í, 25°51 ʹ 46.6 ʹʹ S, 54°10 ʹ 13.9 ʹʹ W, 276 m, 20-IX- 2010, S . Montemayor col . ( MLP); 1♂, 2♀, same data, 29-IX-2010 ( MLP); Santiago del Estero: 1♀, 22-V-1927, M . Kisliuk col . ( USNM); Tucumán: 2♂, 1♀, 1-V-[19]14, T .C . Barber col. ( USNM).

Argentinean distribution

Buenos Aires, Catamarca *, Córdoba, Corrientes, Jujuy *, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza *, Misiones, Santiago del Estero * and Tucumán *.

Central and South American distribution

Antilles, Antigua, Argentina, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Galápagos Islands, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela ( Hradil et al. 2007).

Figures

Figure 1. Distribution of Liorhyssus Stål species in Argentina. Pale colour: known distributions; dark colour: new distributions. The number of known species for each province is provided, with an asterisk indicating the number of newly recorded species.