Lygaeus

Life-forms

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

Familia: Lygaeidae
Subfamilia: Lygaeinae
Genus: Lygaeus
Species: L. alboornatus – L. analis – L. argutus – †L. arvernus – L. ashlocki – †L. atavinus – L. bahamensis – L. bettoni – L. buettikeri – †L. celasensis – L. coccineus – L. cognatus – L. creticus – L. cruentatus – †L. dasypus – †L. dellachiaje – †L. deprehensus – †L. deucalionis – L. dichrous – L. discifer – L. dives – L. dohertyi – †L. elongatiabdominalis – L. equestris – †L. faeculentus – L. flavescens – L. flavomarginatus – L. formosanus – L. froeschneri – †L. gracilentus – †L. gratiosus – L. hanseni – †L. heeri – L. inaequalis – L. kalmii – L. leucospilus – L. longiusculus – L. lugubris – L. melanostolus – L. multiguttatus – L. murinus – L. negus – †L. obscurellus – †L. obsolescens – L. oppositus – L. oreophilus – L. pallipes – L. peruvianus – L. pubicornis – L. quadratomaculatus – L. reclivatus – L. scabrosus – L. sexpustulatus – L. signatus – L. simulans – L. sipolisi – L. sjostedti – L. slateri – †L. stabilitus – L. taitensis – L. teraphoides – †L. tinctus – L. tristriatus – L. truculentus – L. trux – L. turcicus – L. vaccaroi – L. vicarius – L. wagleri – L. wangi
Name

Lygaeus Fabricius, 1794: 133

Type species: Cimex equestris Linnaeus, 1758

References
Primary references

Fabricius, J.C. 1794. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tome IV. C. G. Proft, Hafniae. [6] + 472 + [5 (Index generum)] pp. BHL Reference page.

Links

Lygaeus Taxon details on Fauna Europaea

Lygaeus is a genus of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. There are more than 60 described species in Lygaeus.[1][2]

Species

These 69 species belong to the genus Lygaeus:[3]

Lygaeus alboornatus Blanchard, 1852
Lygaeus analis Dallas, 1852
Lygaeus argutus Brailovsky, 1982
Lygaeus ashlocki Brailovsky, 1978
Lygaeus bahamensis Barber & Ashlock, 1960
Lygaeus bettoni Distant, 1901
Lygaeus buettikeri Hamid & Hamid, 1985
Lygaeus coccineus Barber, 1923
Lygaeus cognatus Walker, 1872
Lygaeus creticus Lucas, 1853
Lygaeus cruentatus Costa, 1839
Lygaeus dichrous Montrouzier, 1855
Lygaeus discifer Motschulsky, 1863
Lygaeus dives Distant, 1918
Lygaeus dohertyi Distant, 1904
Lygaeus equestris (Linnaeus, 1758) (black-and-red bug)
Lygaeus flavescens Winkler & Kerzhner, 1977
Lygaeus flavomarginatus Matsumura, 1913
Lygaeus formosanus Shiraki, 1913
Lygaeus froeschneri Brailovsky, 1978
Lygaeus hanseni Jakovlev, 1883
Lygaeus inaequalis Walker, 1872
Lygaeus kalmii Stal, 1874 (small milkweed bug)
Lygaeus leucospilus Walker, 1870
Lygaeus longiusculus Walker, 1872
Lygaeus lugubris Montrouzier, 1855
Lygaeus mauli Faúndez, Carvajal, Diez & Raffo, 2021
Lygaeus melanostolus (Kiritshenko, 1928)
Lygaeus multiguttatus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850
Lygaeus murinus (Kiritshenko, 1913)
Lygaeus negus Distant, 1918
Lygaeus oppositus Brailovsky, 1978
Lygaeus oreophilus (Kiritshenko, 1931)
Lygaeus pallipes Wolff, 1804
Lygaeus peruvianus Brailovsky, 1978
Lygaeus pubicornis Fabricius, 1775
Lygaeus quadratomaculatus Kirby, 1891
Lygaeus reclivatus Say, 1825 (southern small milkweed bug)
Lygaeus scabrosus Fabricius, 1775
Lygaeus sexpustulatus (Fabricius, 1775)
Lygaeus signatus Costa, 1862
Lygaeus simulans Deckert, 1985
Lygaeus sipolisi Fallou, 1891
Lygaeus sjostedti (Lindberg, 1934)
Lygaeus slateri Gorski, 1968
Lygaeus taitensis Guerin, 1838
Lygaeus teraphoides Jakovlev, 1890
Lygaeus tristriatus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850
Lygaeus truculentus Stal, 1862
Lygaeus trux Stal, 1862
Lygaeus turcicus Fabricius, 1803 (false milkweed bug)
Lygaeus vaccaroi Mancini, 1954
Lygaeus vicarius Winkler & Kerzhner, 1977
Lygaeus wangi Zheng & Zou, 1992
† Lygaeus atavinus Heer, 1853
† Lygaeus celasensis Theobald, 1937
† Lygaeus dasypus Heer, 1853
† Lygaeus dellachiaje Hope *, 1847
† Lygaeus deprehensus Heyden, 1859
† Lygaeus deucalionis Heer, 1853
† Lygaeus elongatiabdominalis Theobald, 1937
† Lygaeus faeculentus Scudder, 1890
† Lygaeus gracilentus Forster *, 1891
† Lygaeus gratiosus Forster *, 1891
† Lygaeus heeri Slater, 1964
† Lygaeus obscurellus Theobald, 1937
† Lygaeus obsolescens Scudder, 1890
† Lygaeus stabilitus Scudder, 1890
† Lygaeus tinctus Heer, 1853

References

"Lygaeus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
"Lygaeus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2021). "genus Lygaeus Fabricius, 1794". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2021-10-05.