Ochterus Latreille, 1807

Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 23-64 : 30-31

Genus Ochterus Latreille, 1807

Ochterus Latreille, 1807: 142–143 (original description). Type species: Acanthia marginata Latreille, 1804 [= Ochterus marginatus ], by monotypy.

Ochtherus Agassiz, 1847: 254. Unjustified emendation, junior objective synonym of Ochterus Latreille, 1807 .

Ochtherus (incorrect subsequent spelling): BERGROTH (1890a): lxvi (nomenclature).

Ochthera (incorrect subsequent spelling): BERGROTH (1890a): lxvi (nomenclature).

Octhera (incorrect subsequent spelling): BERGROTH (1890b): cxix (nomenclature).

Octherus (incorrect subsequent spelling): BERGROTH (1890b): cxix (nomenclature).

Ochterus : KOLENATI (1857): 453 –454 (redescription); KIRKALDY (1906): 149 (catalogue); KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO (1909): 179 (catalogue); OSHANIN (1912): 89 (catalogue); BARBER (1913): 213 –215 (key to species, taxonomy); VAN DUZEE (1917): 475 –476 (catalogue); BLATCHLEY (1926): 1020 –1022 (key to species, review); JACZEWSKI (1934): 601 –610 (diagnosis, revision); JACZEWSKI (1935): 482 (key to genera and species); WU (1935): 557 (catalogue); SCHELL (1943a): 30 –36 (key to genera, revision); SCHELL (1943b): 37 –47 (revision); CHAPMAN (1958): 119 –120 (key to species); KORMILEV (1971): 433 –443 (revision); NIESER (1975): 26 (key to genera and species); MENKE (1979): 124 –125 (catalogue); FROESCHNER (1981): 61 (key to genera); ŠTYS & JANSSON (1988): 8 (catalogue, nomenclature); BAEHR (1989): 112 –125 (key to species); BAEHR (1990b): 450 –476 (diagnosis, key to species, revision); CASSIS & GROSS (1995): 259 –262 (catalogue); POLHEMUS (1995a): 25 (catalogue); ANDERSEN & WEIR (2004): 264, 266–271, 335–336 (key to genera, diagnosis, checklist); CHEN et al. (2005): 78, 423 (key to genera, checklist); EPLER (2006): 1.15, 12.1–12.4 (key to species); YAO et al. (2007): 828, 830 (key to genera, differential table); MAZZUCCO- NI et al. (2009a): 212–213 (key to genera, illustration); HECKMAN (2011): 457 –463 (key to genera and species); YAO et al. (2011): 590, 597–598 (key to genera, phylogeny); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2014): 164 (key to genera); BARBOSA & RODRIGUES (2015): 163, 166, 174, 176, 182 (key to genera, illustrations); LLANO & GUTIÉRREZ (2015): 378 (distribution, illustrations); MELO (2015): 344 (key to genera, diagnosis); MOREIRA et al. (2019): 179, 182, 188, 190 (key to genera, illustrations).

Pelogonus Latreille, 1809: 384 (new substitute name). Junior objective synonym; unnecessary new substitute name for Ochterus Latreille, 1809 , proposed because of presumed homonymy with Ochthera Latreille, [1802] ( Diptera ).

Pélogone (vernacularization): LATREILLE (1825): 423.

Pelegonus (incorrect subsequent spelling): LAPORTE (1832):6, 13 (diagnosis); PUTON (1869): 38 (list); PUTON (1880): 209 (diagnosis).

Pelogonus: LE PELETIER & SERVILLE (1825): 33 (redescription); DUFOUR (1833): 192–193 (comparative notes); BURMEISTER (1835): 202–204 (key to genera, redescription); BRULLÉ (1836): 276–277 (differential diagnosis); BLANCHARD (1840): 93–94 (redescription); AMYOT & SERVILLE (1843):407–409 (redescription); HERRICH- SCHÄFFER (1849): 18, 23–24 (key, redescription); FIEBER (1851): 14–15 (redescription); FIEBER (1861): 103 (redescription, catalogue); STÅL (1866): 170 (redescription); CHAMPION (1901): 344–346 (key to species, revision); DISTANT (1906): 13–14 (catalogue, redescription); OSHANIN (1909): 955 (catalogue).

Neochterus Mahner, 1993: 92, 191 (as subgenus of Ochterus ). Type species: Ochterus manni Hungerford, 1927 , original designation. Unavailable name.

Neochterus: POLHEMUS (1995a): 25 (listed as valid); CIANFERONI (2012): 62 (listed as valid); BARBOSA & RODRIGUES (2015): 174 (listed as valid).

Note. MAHNER (1993) established this presumably paraphyletic taxon to accommodate American species of Ochterus . However, this taxon was defined merely as opposite to Palaeochterus Mahner, defined by its apomorphic structure of the right paramere, and its geographic distribution, without providing a single morphological character, which renders Neochterus Mahner an unavailable name according to Articles 13.1 ( ICZN 1999) (P. Štys, in litt., as well as our opinion).

Palaeochterus Mahner, 1993: 92, 191 (as subgenus of Ochterus ). Type species: Acanthia marginata Latreille, 1804, original designation. Junior objective synonym of Ochterus Latreille, 1807 , recognized by ANDERSEN (1995: 161) and POLHEMUS (1995a: 25).

Note. MAHNER (1993) established this taxon for Old World species of Ochterus , which he considered a monophyletic taxon based on the characteristic right paramere with rounded capitulum and two subapical appendages. Palaeochterus Mahner is thus an available name according to Articles 13.1 and 13.3 ( ICZN 1999), but its author ignored the principle of coordination and created thus a junior objective synonym of Ochterus , as both taxa share the same type species, Acanthia marginata Latreille, 1804 ( ICZN 1999: Art. 43.1).

Note. LLANO & GUTIÉRREZ (2015) provided records and habitus photographs of two unidentified Ochterus species from Colombia.