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Cantinona praecellens Distant 



Cantinona praecellens Distant 1913, p. 159, pi. 11, fig. 15 [Seychelles]. — 

 Drake and Ruhoff 1961b, p. 168, fig. 14. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Seychelles; British Mus. 

 Distribution: Seychelles Island. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Genus CATOPLATUS Spinola 



Catoplatus Spinola 1837, p. 137— Stal 1873, pp. 121, 128; 1874, p. 57 — 

 Lethierry and Severin 1896, p. 20— Horvath 1906a, pp. 14, 85 

 (key).— Oshanin 1908, p. 442; 1912, p. 45.— Kiritshenko 1918, p. 

 109; 1951, pp. 242, 251 (key).— Stichel 1926, pp. 104, 113 (key); 

 1935, p. 349; 1938a, p. 408; 1960a, p. 323 (key); 1960b, p. 398; 

 1960c, p. 137.— Borner 1935, pp. 74,77 (key).— Guide 1938, pp. 244, 

 300 (key).— Hoberlandt 1942, p. 125; 1943, p. 119; 1955, p. 92.— 

 China 1943, p. 247— Blote 1945, p. 88.— Singer 1952, p. 53.— Drake 

 and Ruhoff 1960a, p. 43. 



Catoplatus (Coscinopoea) Stal 1873, p. 128; 1874, p. 58.— Drake and Ru- 

 hoff 1960a, p. 48. 



Monanthia (Catoplatus): Puton 1879c, p. 117. — Saunders 1892, p. 

 134. 

 Type Species: Tingis Jabricii Stal. 



*Catoplatus amicus (Reuter) 



Monanthia (Catoplatus) antica Reuter 1880, p. 11 [Greece]. 

 Catoplatus anticus: Lethierry and Severin 1896, p. 20. — Horvath 1906a, 

 p. 88 [Turkey]; 1916, p. 9 [Albania]; 1918, p. 334.— Kiritshenko 

 1951, p. 251 [Russia].— Mancini 1953b, p. 186.— Hoberlandt 1955, 

 p. 92 [Israel].— Stichel 1960a, p. 324. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Greece; Helsin. Mus. 

 Distribution: Albania; Greece; Turkey; Israel; U.S.S.R. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Catoplatus anticus var. syriacus Horvath 



Catoplatus anticus var. syriacus Horvath 1906a, p. 88 [Israel]. — Hober- 

 landt 1955, p. 92 [Turkey; Russia]. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Syria; Hungarian Mus. 

 Distribution: Israel; Turkey; U.S.S.R. (Crimea). 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Catoplatus bletoni Vidal 



Catoplatus bletoni Vidal 1937, p. 197, fig. 2 [Morocco]. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Morocco; Vidal Coll. 

 Distribution: Morocco. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



