Elasmucha Stål, 1864

Tsai, Jing-Fu & Rédei, Dávid, 2015, The identity of Acanthosoma vicinum, with proposal of a new genus and species level synonymy (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae), Zootaxa 3936 (3), pp. 375-386 : 376

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.3.4

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6097030

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Elasmucha Stål, 1864
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Genus Elasmucha Stål, 1864 View in CoL

Tropidocoris Schummel, 1828: 65. Unavailable name. Synonymized by Schummel (1835: 91) with Clinocoris Hahn, 1834 .

Clinocoris Hahn, 1834: 70 . Type species by subsequent designation ( Kirkaldy 1909: xxxii): Cimex ferrugator Fabricius, 1794 (= Cimex ferrugatus Fabricius, 1787). Junior homonym of Clinocoris Fallén, 1829 (Cimicidae) . Synonymized by Stål (1876: 114).

Sastragala (non Amyot & Serville, 1843): Fieber (1860: 78; 1861: 327). Misidentification ( Stål 1864: 54).

Elasmucha Stål, 1864: 54 View in CoL . Type species by subsequent designation ( Kirkaldy 1909: xxxii): Cimex ferrugatus Fabricius, 1787.

Meadorus Mulsant & Rey, 1866: 312, 315. Type species by subsequent designation ( Kirkaldy 1909: xxxii): Meadorus interstinctus (non Linnaeus, 1758): Mulsant & Rey (1866: 316) (= Cimex griseus Linnaeus, 1758). Synonymized by Stål (1868: 39).

Elasmostethus View in CoL (non Fieber, 1860): Lethierry & Severin (1893: 255). Misidentification ( Oshanin 1906: 168).

Pseudostollia Breddin, 1901: 65. Type species by original designation: Acanthosoma delicatula Walker, 1867 View in CoL . Synonymized by Kumar (1974: 48).

Galasastra Breddin, 1903: 205. Type species by monotypy: Galasastra salebrosa Breddin, 1903. Synonymized by Kumar (1974: 48).

Grossaria Kumar, 1974: 42, 47. Type species by original designation: Acanthosoma vicinum Uhler, 1861 View in CoL . New subjective synonym.

Elasmucha View in CoL (selected references): Stål 1871: 638 (in key), Kirkaldy 1909: 175 (catalogue), Lee 1971: 223 (fauna of Korea), Kerzhner 1972: 214 (fauna of USSR), Kumar 1974: 42 (in key), 48 (redescription, synonymy), Petrova 1975: 96 (in key), 103 (fauna of Siberia), Hsiao & Liu 1977: 159 (in key), 163 (fauna of China), Vinokurov 1979: 153 (in key), 154 (fauna of Yakutia), Kanyukova 1988: 912 (in key), 915 (fauna of Far East of USSR), Vinokurov & Kanyukova 1995: 191 (in key), 195 (fauna of Siberia), Göllner-Scheiding 2006: 173 (catalogue, Palaearctic), Yamamoto & Hayashi 2012: 512 (fauna of Japan), Aukema et al. 2013: 431 (catalogue, Palaearctic).

Grossaria: Göllner-Scheiding 2006: 178 (catalogue, Palaearctic).

Discussion. The genus Grossaria was proposed for Acanthosoma vicinum by Kumar (1974) based on the examination of a single male (the lectotype). The author expressed that Grossaria is similar to Elasmucha but it differs from the latter genus in the shorter spine of the abdominal ventrite III that reaches only to the posterior ends of the hind coxae (it reaches at least to anterior ends of the hind coxae in Elasmucha ) and in unspecified characters of the male genitalia.

Reexamination of the lectotype of A. vicinum , including its male genitalia, revealed that it is a male of Elasmucha dorsalis . The spine of the abdominal ventrite III of the lectotype was correctly described by Uhler (1861) and does not differ from that of other species of Elasmucha ; the difference noted by Kumar (1974) is merely ostensible, resulting from the fact that the specimen is broken between the metathorax and the abdomen (cf. Fig. 2 View FIGURES 1 – 5 ). We disagree with Kumar (1974) that the male genitalia support placement of A. dorsalis in a genus of its own, and therefore we propose the following new subjective synonymy: Elasmucha Stål, 1864 = Grossaria Kumar, 1974, syn. nov.

As a consequence of the new genus level synonymy proposed above, the following new combination will be necessary: Elasmucha vicina ( Uhler, 1861) , comb. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Acanthosomatidae

Loc

Elasmucha Stål, 1864

Tsai, Jing-Fu & Rédei, Dávid 2015
2015
Loc

Elasmostethus

Oshanin 1906: 168
Lethierry 1893: 255
1893
Loc

Elasmucha

Aukema 2013: 431
Yamamoto 2012: 512
Gollner-Scheiding 2006: 173
Vinokurov 1995: 191
Kanyukova 1988: 912
Vinokurov 1979: 153
Hsiao 1977: 159
Petrova 1975: 96
Kumar 1974: 42
Lee 1971: 223
Kirkaldy 1909: 175
Stal 1871: 638
1871
Loc

Elasmucha Stål, 1864 : 54

Stal 1864: 54
1864
Loc

Clinocoris

Stal 1876: 114
Hahn 1834: 70
1834
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