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APPENDIX A 



Genera Wrongly Included in the Pyrrhocoridae 



Genus DACERLA Bergroth 



[To be referred to Family Miridae] 



Monotype inflata (Uhler) 



Dacerla 1881 Signoret, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, p. XLvn. [asLygaeid.] [Nomen nudumj 



1894 Lethierry and Severin, Cat. Gin. Hem. II: 240. [as Pyrrhocorid, sec. 

 Bergroth.] 



Myrmecopsis 1894 Uhler, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2) IV: 276. [preoccupied.] 

 Dacerla 1897 Bergroth, Ent. News. VIII: 95. [As Mirid.] 



infiata (Uhler) 



1881 Dacerla mediospinosa [nomen nudum] Signoret, Bull. Soc. Ent. Caliform'a^ 



France, p. xxvn.^ 

 1894 Myrmecopsis inflatus Uhler, Proc. Calif. Acad, Sci. (2) IV: 277.1 

 1897 Dacerla inflata Bergroth, Ent. News VIII: 95. 



Genus ERLACDA Signoret 



[To be referred to Family Lygaeidae] 



Monotype arhaphaeoides Signoret 



Erlacda 1864 Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (4) IV: 567. [Indicated as near Arhaphe.] 

 1870 Stal, Enum. Hem. I: 90, note. 

 1874 Stal, Enum. Hem. IV: 153. [As Lygaeid.] 



arhaphaeoides Signoret 



1864 Erlacda arhaphaeoides Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (4) IV: Chile^ 



567,1 PI, XI, Fig. 4. 

 1874 Erlacda arhaphaeoides Stal, Enum. Hem. IV: 153. 



Genus MEGAPETUS Distant 



[To be referred to Family Coriscidae] 



Monotype atratus Distant 



Megapetus 1902 Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 542. [As Pyrrhocorid.] 



1926 China, in litt. [As Alydine, possibly sjoionymous with genus Riptortus.] 



atratus Distant 



1902 Megapetus atratus Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 542,* PI. Mashonaland^ 



XIX, Figs. 57, 58. 

 1926 Megapetus atratus China, in litt. [Type specimen is a nymph.] 



Genus RENODAEUS Distant 



[To be referred to Family Miridae] 



Monotype ficarius Distant 



Renodaeus 1893 Distant, B. C. A. Het. I: 461. [As Pyrrhocorid.] 



1926 Knight, Bull. Brookl. Ent. Soc. XXI: 59. [As Mirid.] 



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