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Cimex Catalog
Additions and Corrections

    Below is a list of additions and/or corrections that have been discovered since the publication of the Catalog of Cimex names.  Please contact me if you discover more corrections, and I will add them to this list.  This publication is still available through the Entomological Society of America.  Full citation:

Dolling, W. R., D. A. Rider, and L. H. Rolston.  1999.  Catalog of the names of Cimex Linnaeus, with comments on early works concerning the Heteroptera.  Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs.  Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland.  154pp.

Page 4:
aereus Herrich-Schäffer, 1841 - should be Myota aerea (Herrich-Schäffer, 1841).

Page 5:
aggressor Fabricius, 1775 - should be Avicenna aggressor (Fabricius, 1775).

Page 6:
albomarginatus Schrank, 1776 - should be Canthophorus dubius (Scopoli, 1763)

Page 12:
aurantiacus Burmeister, 1835 - should be Catacanthus incarnatus (Drury, 1773).
aurantius Sulzer, 1776 - should be Catacanthus incarnatus (Drury, 1773).

Page 15:
biguttatus Schrank, 1801 - this was originally proposed as a new name for Cimex bipunctatus Fabricius, 1779.

Page 19:
carunculatus Gmelin, 1790 - should be Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale (Linnaeus, 1758).
catena Drury, 1782 - should be Oplomus (Catostyrax) catena (Drury, 1782).

Page 20:
chalybeus Gmelin, 1790 - should be Zicrona caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758), Pentatomidae.

Page 30:
druraei Linnaeus, 1771 - should be Poecilocoris druraei (Linnaeus, 1771).
dubius Scopoli, 1763 - should be Canthophorus dubius (Scopoli, 1763)

Page 35:
flavicinctus Herrich-Schäffer, 1839 - should be Ochlerus cinctus Spinola, 1837.

Page 38:
fulvus Gmelin, 1790 - should be Tessaratoma papillosa (Drury, 1773), Tessaratomidae (see p. 130).
fuscoannulatus (Stål, 1858) - should be Picromerus bidens (Linnaeus, 1758).

Page 39:
galii Wolff, 1802 - should be Vilpianus galii (Wolff, 1802).

Page 40:
globus Fabricius, 1794 - should be Coptosoma scutellatum (Geoffroy, 1785).

Pages 40-41:
glutinosae Schrank, 1785 - Palearctic catalog treated this as a nomen oblitum, and a synonym of Rhopalus subrufus (Gmelin, 1790), Rhopalidae

Page 47:
impressus Coquebert de Montbret, 1801 - should be Canopus impressus (Coquebert, 1801).

Page 49:
iserti Fabricius, 1794 - should be Chalcocoris rutilans (Fabricius, 1781).

Page 53:
linea Klug, 1845 - should be Agatharchus linea (Klug, 1845).

Page 54:
longicollis (Jakovlev, 1902) - should be Picromerus bidens (Linnaeus, 1758).

Page 55:
lynceus Fabricius, 1794 - should be Solenostethium bilunulatum (Lefebvre, 1827).

Page 69:
perspicuus Fabricius, 1798 - should be Runibia perspicua (Fabricius, 1798).

Page 73:
purpureus (Westwood, 1837) - should be Afrius yolofa (Guérin-Méneville, 1831).

Page 74:
quadrilineatus Schrank, 1801 - this was originally proposed as a new name for Cimex fuscofasciatus Goeze, 1778.

Page 76:
regius Drury, 1782 - should be Oplomus (Catostyrax) catena (Drury, 1782).

Page 77:
rostratus Drury, 1782 - should be Platynopiellus septemdecimmaculatus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1811).

Page 79:
rutilus Fabricius, 1775 - should be Agonoscelis rutila (Fabricius, 1775).

Page 90:
tanaceti Schrank, 1801 - this was actually proposed as a new name for viridiflavus Goeze, 1778.
tarsatus Klug, 1845 - should be Brachynema cinctum (Fabricius, 1775).

Page 93:
triangularis Goeze, 1778 - need to add family name, Miridae.
tricolor Gmelin, 1790 - should be Chlorochroa juniperina (Linnaeus, 1758), Pentatomidae. (see p. 130).

Page 94:
tristriatus Fabricius, 1787 - should be Cyphostethus tristriatus (Fabricius, 1787).

Page 96:
unicolor Turton, 1802 - should be Chlorochroa juniperina (Linnaeus, 1758), Pentatomidae (see p. 130).

Page 98:
varius Gmelin, 1790 - should be Coridius janus (Fabricius, 1775), Dinidoridae (see p. 130).

Page 101:
vittatus Fabricius, 1781 - should be Oncacontias vittatus (Fabricius, 1781).

Page 103:
Add: Canopidae: impressus.

Page 125:
Next to last sentence under DeGeer, 1778, should read: "... and Cimex testudo nigra DeGeer, 1778, is senior synonym to Brachyplatys pallipes (Fabricius, 1781) (Plataspidae)."

Page 130:
The last line of no. 98 - pallidus should be pallescens.

 

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