Genus Liorhyssus Stål, 1870

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Type species

Lygaeus hyalinus Fabricius, 1794 .

Liorhyssus hyalinus (Fabricius, 1794) lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:452354

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).