Open AccessThe identity of the Spinola Collection Corixidae (Heteroptera)
Author(s) -
Antti Jansson
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
entomologica fennica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.173
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2489-4966
pISSN - 0785-8760
DOI - 10.33338/ef.83611
Subject(s) - heteroptera , hemiptera , taxon , identity (music) , zoology , biology , genealogy , geography , ecology , art , history , aesthetics
In a catalogue prepared on the Hemiptera of the Massimiliano Spinola Collection in the Torino Museum, Italy, 16 species were placed under the generic name Corixa, and two under the generic name Sigara. In ten of the taxa, the author was claimed to have been Spinola himself. However, only two valid taxa have been generally accepted, and the rest are either synonymic or only collection names. The present paper reveals the true identity of all the species of the Corixidae in the Spinola Collection.