Lygaeus tinctus Heer 1853 (milkweed bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Lygaeidae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1853. Die Insektenfauna der TertiƤrgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Dritte Theil: Rhynchoten 1-138

Belongs to Lygaeus according to O. Heer 1864

See also Heer 1853

Sister taxa: Lygaeus atavinus, Lygaeus celasensis, 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 ventralis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Oeningen (Winterthur collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oeningen (Winterthur collection)

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