Gelastocoris fuscus Martin, 1929

Gelastocoris fuscus Martin, 1929: 364 .—HT: #, Ecuador, Tena; SEMC.

Gelastocoris martinezi De Carlo, 1954: 97 (syn. Todd 1955: 336).—HT: #, Bolivia, Cochabamba, Chapare, “S. F. Chipiriri”; MACN.

Gelastocoris problematicus Poisson, 1954: 71 (syn. Todd 1956: 348).—Described from Peru, “Sivia”. Syntypes deposited in the ZMUH and destroyed during the Second World War (Todd 1956).

Distribution. Bolivia (De Carlo 1954); Brazil (Martin 1929); Chile (Santiago) (Todd 1955); Colombia (Nieser 1977); Ecuador (Martin 1929); Paraguay (Schnack & Estévez 1979). Peru (Poisson 1954); Suriname (Nieser 1975).

Note. The synonymy between G. martinezi and G. fuscus proposed by Todd (1955) was considered incorrect by Nieser (1975), but accepted by Schnack & Estévez (1979). See also Todd (1961).