Ctenipocoris Montandon, 1897

Polhemus, John T. & Polhemus, Dan A., 2008, Intraspecific morphological polymorphism in Naucoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with notes on nomenclature and synonymy, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (2), pp. 289-298 : 296-297

Ctenipocoris Montandon, 1897

Ctenipocoris Montandon, 1897c: 373 . Type species: Ctenipocoris asiaticus Montandon, 1897 , by monotypy. Brevocoris La Rivers, 1974: 11. Nomen nudum.

Discussion. The genus Ctenipocoris is construed here to include the species given in the check list below, including two Old World species, and four South American species formerly held in Heleocoris . LA RIVERS (1974) proposed the subgenus Brevocoris to hold all South American species of Heleocoris , however Brevocoris is a nomen nudum because no type-species was named.

D. POLHEMUS (1987) transferred the South American Heleocoris brasiliensis to Ctenipocoris . The remainder of the South American species now held in the genus Heleocoris (with the exception of Heleocoris plaumanni ) are here transferred to Ctenipocoris as well.

LA RIVERS (1960) misidentified Ctenipocoris africanus as a Heleocoris species and proposed it as a new species, H. faradjensis La Rivers, 1960 ; the latter is transferred to Ctenipocoris and synonymized. We have studied the type series from ‘Northeastern Belgian Congo’, later known as Zaire and recently as Democratic Republic of the Congo.