Lygaeus celasensis Theobald 1937 (milkweed bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Lygaeidae

Full reference: N. Theobald. 1937. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Bulletin Mensuel (Mémoires) de la Société des Sciences de Nancy 1:1-473

Belongs to Lygaeus according to N. Theobald 1937

Sister taxa: Lygaeus atavinus, Lygaeus dasypus, Lygaeus daulus, Lygaeus deprehensus, Lygaeus deucalionis, Lygaeus elongatiabdominalis, Lygaeus faeculentus, Lygaeus fossitius, Lygaeus gracilentus, Lygaeus gratiosus, Lygaeus mutilus, Lygaeus obscurellus, Lygaeus obsolescens, Lygaeus stabilitus, Lygaeus tinctus, Lygaeus ventralis

Type specimen: Marseilles Museum C45, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine marl in France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection)

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