80 General Catalogue of the Hemiptera 



Pla tycoris — Pla tynotus — Scan tius 



Genus PLATYCORIS Gistel 

 [Synonym of Pyrrhocoris Fallen, q. v.] 

 Type apterus (Linnaeus) 

 Platycoris 1848 Gistel, Naturges. Thierr. 149. [Name preoccupied.] 



apterus (Linnaeus) 1758. See Pyrrhocoris aplerus (Linnaeus). 



Genus PLATYNOTUS Schilling 

 [Synonym of Pyrrhocoris Fallen, q. v.] 

 Monotype apterus (Linnaeus) 

 Platynotus 1829 Schilling, Beitr. Ent. I: 37. [Name preoccupied.] 



a,ptertts (Linnaeus) 1758. See Pyrrhocoris apterus (Linnaeus). 



Genus SCANTIUS Stal 

 Logotype forsteri (Fabricius) 



Scantius 1866 Stal, Hem. Afr. Ill: 4 and 10. [Included: Jorsteri and 

 aurantiacus.] 



1870 Stal, Enum. Hem. I: 103 and 116. 

 Pyrrhocoris 1872 Walker, Cat. Heter. V: 167. [partim] 

 Scantius 1885 Reuter, Rev. d'Ent. IV: 231. 



Pyrrhocoris 1899 Puton, Cat. Hem. Pal., Ed. 4, 38, subgen. Scantius 

 Scantius 1903 Distant, Rhynch. Brit. Ind. II: 117. 



1920 Bergroth, Ark. Zool. XII, 17:4. 



abyssinicus Bolivar 



1879 Scantius abyssinicus Bolivar, Anal. Soc. Espaii. Hist. Abyssinia^-' 



Nat. VIII: 142.1 Eritrea^ 



1905 Scantius abyssinicus Schouteden, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. Somaliland' 



XLIX: 10^ [redescribed] and 16.^ Kilimandjaro* 



1910 Scantius abyssinicus Schouteden, Wiss. Ergebn. Sjo- 

 stedt's Kilimandjaro Exp. II, 12: 153." 



aegyptius (Linnaeus) 



1758 Cimex aegyptius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 10, I: 447, 



1761 Cimex aegyptius Poda, Ins. Graec. 59. 



1764 Cimex aegyptius Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. 178. 



1767 Cimex aegyptius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, 1, 2: 727. 



1775 Cimex aegyptius Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 720. 



1778 Cimex aegyptius Goeze, Ent. Beytr. II: 214. 



1781 Cimex aegyptius Fabricius, Spec. Ins. II: 364. 



1787 Cimex aegyptius Fabricius, Mant. Ins. II: 300. 



1788 Cimex aegyptius Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Ed. 13, 1, 4: 2173. 

 1790 Cimex italicus Rossi, Faun. Etr. II: 241, Tab. VIII, 



Fig. 1. 

 1794 Lygaeus aegyptius Fabricius, Ent. Syst. IV: 155. 

 1803 Lygaeus aegyptius Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. 222.^ 



Canary Isl.^' 



Spain^-® 



Portugal'* 



S. France^ •' 



Mayorca^^ 



Corsica* 



Sardinia^ 



Italy" 



SicUyi* 



Albania''^ 



Morocco'^ 



Algeria^-"-!^ 



Tunis" 



